Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy

Russell J. Dalton (Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine.),David M. Farrell (Chair of Politics, and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations.),Ian McAllister (Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Australian National University.)

Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 April 2013
Pages
258
ISBN
9780199674961

Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy

Russell J. Dalton (Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine.),David M. Farrell (Chair of Politics, and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations.),Ian McAllister (Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Australian National University.)

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

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