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How Political Parties Respond

Interest Aggregation Revisited

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Published: 22nd November 2004
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"How Political Parties Respond to Voters" focuses specifically on the question of interest aggregation: do parties today perform that function? If so, how and if not, in what different ways do they seek to show themselves responsive to the electorate? Such changes have been studied more widely in the United States than in other democracies. This fascinating book studies the question with reference to the following democracies: Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Canada. A chapter on Russia demonstrates how newly powerful private interest groups and modern techniques of persuasion can work together to prevent effective party response to popular interests in systems where the authoritarian tradition remains strong. Introductory and concluding chapters by the editors explore the broader implications of the changes noted.

Do Parties Respond to Voters? Challenges to Political Parties and their Consequences
Speaking for Whom? From 'Old' to 'New' Labour
From Disaster to Landslide: The Case of the British Labour Party
From People's Movements to Electoral Machines? Interest Aggregation and the Social Democratic Parties of Scandinavia
From Aggregation to Cartel? The Danish Case
How Parties in Government Respond: Distributive Policy in Post-Wall Berlin
Reaggregating Interests? How the Break-Up of the Union for French Democracy has Changed the Response of the French Moderate Right
Radicals, Technocrats and Traditionalists: Interest Aggregation in Two Povincial Social Democratic Parties in Canada
Paying for Party Response: Parties of the Centre-Right in Postwar Italy
Latecomers but 'Early-Adapters': The Adaptation and Response of Spanish Parties to Social Changes
Representative Rule or the Rule of Representations: The Case of Russian Political Parties
Five Variations On A Theme: Interest Aggregation By Party Today
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ISBN: 9780415347976
ISBN-10: 0415347971
Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 280
Published: 22nd November 2004
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.56