Party Politics In New Democracies (Comparative Politics)

. Ed(s): Webb, Paul; White, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0199289662 / ISBN 13: 9780199289660

Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2009

About this Item

This book is the sequel to Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Oxford 2002). It offers a systematic and rigorous analysis of parties in some of the world's major new democracies, focusing on Latin America and postcommunist Eastern Europe. Editor(s): Webb, Paul; White, Stephen. Series: Comparative Politics. Num Pages: 392 pages, numerous tables. BIC Classification: JPB; JPH; JPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 614. . 2000. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Party Politics In New Democracies (Comparative Politics)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199289662
• ISBN 13: 9780199289660
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The sister volume to Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, this book offers a systematic and rigorous analysis of parties in some of the world's major new democracies. Drawing on a wealth of expertise and data, the book assesses the popular legitimacy, organizational development and functional performance of political parties in Latin America and post-communist Eastern Europe. It demonstrates the generational differences between parties in the old and new democracies, and reveals contrasts among the latter. Parties are shown to be at their most feeble in those recently transitional democracies characterized by personalistic, candidate-centered forms of politics, but in other new democracies--especially those with parliamentary systems--parties are more stable and institutionalized, enabling them to facilitate a meaningful degree of popular choice and control. Wherever party politics is weakly institutionalized, political inequality tends to be greater, commitment to pluralism less certain, clientelism and corruption more pronounced, and populist demagoguery a greater temptation. Without party, democracy's hold is more tenuous.

About the Author

Paul Webb is Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex. He is author or editor of numerous publications, including The Modern British Party System , Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Societies (OUP, 2002, coedited) and The Presidentialization of Politics: A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies (OUP , 2005, coedited). He is currently an editor of the journals Party Politics and Representation.

Stephen White is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Glasgow, and a Senior Research Associate of its School of Slavonic, Central and East European Studies. A former president of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies and chief editor of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, his recent books include Russia After Communism (coedited, 2002), Postcommunist Belarus (coedited, 2005) and Developments in Russian Politics (2005).