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Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy
Contributor(s): Dalton, Russell J. (Author), Farrell, David M. (Author), McAllister, Ian (Author)

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 ISBN: 0199674965     ISBN-13: 9780199674961
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $49.40  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Process - Political Parties
- Political Science | Political Process - Campaigns & Elections
- Political Science | Comparative Politics
Dewey: 324.204
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (0.85 lbs) 258 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Is the party over? Parties are the central institutions of representative democracy, but critics increasingly claim that parties are failing to perform their democratic functions. This book assembles unprecedented cross-national evidence to assess how parties link the individual citizen to the
formation of governments and then to government policies. Using the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems and other recent cross-national data, the authors examine the workings of this party linkage process across established and new democracies. Political parties still dominate the electoral
process in shaping the discourse of campaigns, the selection of candidates, and mobilizing citizens to vote. Equally striking, parties link citizen preferences to the choice of representatives, with strong congruence between voter and party Left/Right positions. These preferences are then translated
in the formation of coalition governments and their policies.

The authors argue that the critics of parties have overlooked the ability of political parties to adapt to changing conditions in order to perform their crucial linkage functions. As the context of politics and societies have changed, so too have political parties. Political Parties and Democratic
Linkage argues that the process of party government is alive and well in most contemporary democracies.
 
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