Party Competition between Unequals Paperback: Strategies and Electoral Fortunes in Western Europe (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) - Softcover

Meguid, Bonnie M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521169089 ISBN 13: 9780521169080

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Why do some political parties flourish, while others flounder? In this book, Meguid argues that the fortunes of green, radical right and ethnoterritorial parties are shaped by the strategies of mainstream parties. She explores how and why established parties undermine these niche parties or turn them into weapons against their mainstream party opponents.

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Críticas:

'In this well-written, accessible, and superbly researched book, Meguid offers a new framework for explaining what she calls niche party success and failure. ... Meguid's book significantly advances our understanding of the relationship between mainstream and niche parties, niche party success and failure, and party competition between unequals and nonproximal parties.' Journal of Politics

'... the book offers brilliant academic intrigue ... good reading for social scientists and their students, [and] also for policy analysts and policy makers ...' CEU Political Science Journal

'In this very valuable contribution to comparative state-church studies, Ahmet T. Kuru takes readers on a deep and illuminating dive to examine why three self-consciously 'secular' states - the United States, France, and Turkey - have come to treat religion in the public sphere so differently from one another ... Kuru offers a fresh and well-researched perspective on the resulting clashes, and he demonstrates why assertive secularism won out in twentieth century France and Turkey.' Jonathan Laurence, Culture and Society

Biografía del autor:

Bonnie Meguid is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. Her research on party competition has been published in The American Political Science Review. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Krupp Foundation, and her doctoral dissertation was awarded the Samuel H. Beer Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation on British Politics by the British Politics Group.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521169089
• ISBN 13: 9780521169080
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338