Political parties and democracy /

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Imprint:Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Description:xxxiv, 356 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:A journal of democracy book
Journal of democracy book.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4617108
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Other authors / contributors:Diamond, Larry Jay.
Gunther, Richard.
ISBN:0801868637 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
  • 1. Types and Functions of Parties, Richard Gunther and Larry Diamond
  • 2. The Rise of Parties in Western Democracies, Hans Daalder
  • 3. The Americanization of the European Left, Seymour Martin Lipset
  • 4. Parties Are Not What They Once Were, Philippe C. Schmitter
  • 5. The Party Effects of Electoral Systems, Giovanni Sartori
  • II. Parties and Party Systems After Reform
  • 6. The Three Phases of Italian Parties, Leonardo Morlino
  • 7. Japan's "1955 System" and Beyond, Bradley Richardson
  • III. Developing and Postcommunist Systems
  • 8. Political and Darwinism in Latin America's Lost Decade, Michael Coppedge
  • 9. Toward Modern Pluralism: Political Parties in India, E. Sridharan and Ashutosh Varshney
  • 10. The Institutional Decline of Parties in Turkey, Ergun Ă–zbudun
  • 11. The Legacy of One-Party Hegemony in Taiwan, Yun-han Chu
  • 12. Divergent Paths of Postcommunist Democracies, Herbert Kitschelt
  • IV. Conclusion
  • 13. Challenges to Contemporary Political Parties, Stefano Bartolini and Peter Mair
  • Index