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Farewell to the Party Model?

Independent Local Lists in East and West European Countries

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  1. Marion Reiser
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  2. Everhard Holtmann
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  • A Comparative View of Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Netherlands and Belgium

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-6
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Marion Reiser, Everhard Holtmann
      Pages 7-9

    2. Local Lists in Europe

      • Everhard Holtmann
      Pages 11-19

  3. Local Lists in East and Central European Countries

    1. Local Lists in the Czech Republic

      • Petr Jüptner
      Pages 21-37

    2. Independent Local Lists in Croatia: In Search for a Composite Theoretical Frame

      • Ivan Koprić
      Pages 39-61

    3. Local and National Parties in Hungary

      • Gábor Soós
      Pages 63-84

    4. Citizen Electoral Alliances in Estonia: Citizen Democracy versus Cartel Parties

      • Vello Pettai, Rein Toomla, Elvis Joakit
      Pages 85-104

    5. Non-party Lists in Local Election in Poland

      • Agnieszka Dudzińska
      Pages 105-126

  4. A bridging case?

    1. Independent Local Lists in East and West Germany

      • Stefan Göhlert, Everhard Holtmann, Adrienne Krappidel, Marion Reiser
      Pages 127-148

  5. Local Lists in West European Countries

    1. Local Political Parties in the Netherlands: Anomaly or Prototype?

      • Marcel Boogers
      Pages 149-167

    2. All Politics is Local, Partisan or National? Local Lists in Belgium

      • Kristof Steyvers, Herwig Reynaert, Koenraad De Ceuninck, Tony Valcke
      Pages 169-193

    3. Local Parties in Sweden

      • Ingemar Wörlund
      Pages 195-210

    4. Independent Lists in Norwegian Local Politics

      • Jacob Aars, Hans-Erik Ringkjøb
      Pages 211-232

    5. Independents and Citizen’s Groups in Portuguese Municipalities

      • Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida
      Pages 233-251

    6. Multi-Party Politics in England: Small Parties, Independents, and Political Associations in English Local Politics

      • Colin Copus, Alistair Clark, Karin Bottom
      Pages 253-276

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 295-296
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About this book

Marion Reiser, Everhard Holtmann Local independent lists as political actors are a common phenomenon on the local level in many European countries – in established Western democracies as well as in the ‘new’ democracies in Central and Eastern Europe. In some West European countries, these non-partisan groups have been an established and stable element in the local political system for decades. Ty- cally, they understand themselves as protectors of a harmonious factual political style. In their opinion, good local politics is not compatible with party politics so they consequently perceive themselves as non-parties. During the last two d- ades, presence and success of local lists have steadily increased in these co- tries. Furthermore, during the last years local lists emerged also in countries which had been formerly fully party-politicised on the local level. Explanations offered for these developments are often based on the observation of a general decline of trust in established parties and politicians. Hence, it has been argued that the disenchantment with political parties is a fertile ground for local lists. For the Central and East European countries, this argument can be - ployed only to a certain extent. Local lists established themselves in the early 1990’s as important actors on the local level especially due to a lack of party organisation in the process of democratic consolidation.

About the authors

Reiser, Marion, Dr., is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Holtmann, Everhard, Dr., is Professor of Political Science at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg.

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