Party Politics In New Democracies (Comparative Politics)

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.

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).