Altering Party Systems: Strategic Behavior and the Emergence of New Political Parties in Western Democracies (Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics) - Hardcover

Buch 4 von 5: Interests, Identities, And Institutions In Comparative Politics

Hug, Simon

 
9780472111848: Altering Party Systems: Strategic Behavior and the Emergence of New Political Parties in Western Democracies (Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0472111841 ISBN 13: 9780472111848
Verlag: University of Michigan Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

New political parties have regularly appeared in developed democracies around the world. In some countries issues focusing on the environment, immigration, economic decline, and regional concerns have been brought to the forefront by new political parties. In other countries these issues have been addressed by established parties, and new issue-driven parties have failed to form. Most current research is unable to explain why under certain circumstances new issues or neglected old ones lead to the formation of new parties. Based on a novel theoretical framework, this study demonstrates the crucial interplay between established parties and possible newcomers to explain the emergence of new political parties.
Deriving stable hypotheses from a simple theoretical model, the book proceeds to a study of party formation in twenty-two developed democracies. New or neglected issues still appear as a driving force in explaining the emergence of new parties, but their effect is partially mediated by institutional factors, such as access to the ballot, public support for parties, and the electoral system. The hypotheses in part support existing theoretical work, but in part present new insights. The theoretical model also pinpoints problems of research design that are hardly addressed in the comparative literature on new political parties. These insights from the theoretical model lead to empirical tests that improve on those employed in the literature and allow for a much-enhanced understanding of the formation and the success of new parties.
Simon Hug is Lecturer in Political Science, University of Geneva.

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Simon Hug is Assistant Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin.

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Verlag
University of Michigan Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0472111841
ISBN 13 
9780472111848
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Anzahl der Seiten
216
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