Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198295495)

This is the first full-length book to examine how we interpret evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing primarily on processes of political adaptation and control, it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and "freeze" themselves into place. Amid the widespread contemporary discussions of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, if offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analyzed and understood.

Author: Peter Mair
ISBN-10: 0198295499
ISBN-13: 9780198295495
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 01/07/1999
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.74w x 0.68d