Description

This book provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the roles that political parties perform in twenty OECD nations. It finds that parties continue to exercise their traditional roles in organizing elections and structuring the government process, but that they are losing the allegiance of a public that is increasingly non-partisan and sceptical about political parties as institutions. These findings lead to a discussion about the changing nature of representative democracy as these nations enter the 21st Century.

Reviews

"...a cohesive study of party change in the late 20th century in most of the advanced democracies...indispensable for graduate students, researchers, and faculty."--^Choice

Product Details

328 pages; 13 line illus; ISBN13: 978-0-19-925309-8ISBN10: 0-19-925309-9