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Parties, Governments and Elites

The Comparative Study of Democracy

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Philipp Harfst

    1. Institut für Politik- und Kommunikation, Universität Greifswald, Salzburg, Austria

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  2. Ina Kubbe

    1. Tel Aviv, Israel

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  3. Thomas Poguntke

    1. Politikwissemschaft, Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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  • State-of-the-Art constitutional politics
  • International contributors
  • In honour of the 65th birthday of Ferdinand Müller-Rommel
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (VGPO)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Introduction

    • Philipp Harfst, Ina Kubbe, Thomas Poguntke
    Pages 1-5

  3. Parties and Democracy in Comparative Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Kosmopolitismus versus Kommunitarismus: Ein neuer Konflikt in der Demokratie

      • Wolfgang Merkel
      Pages 9-23

    3. Responsible Responsiveness of Parties in and out of Government

      • Hans Keman
      Pages 25-52

    4. Ideological Congruence: Choice, Visibility and Clarity

      • Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Darina Gancheva, Bernhard Weßels
      Pages 53-72

    5. New Parties and the Crisis of Representation: Between Indicator and Solution

      • Kris Deschouwer
      Pages 73-85

    6. Changing or Getting Changed: The Example of the German Greens since 1979

      • Thomas Poguntke
      Pages 87-103

    7. The ‘Law of Conservation of Disproportionality’ and Electoral Prospects of Small Parties

      • Philipp Harfst
      Pages 105-124

    8. New Internal Politics in Western Democracies: The Impact of the Environmental Movement in Highly Industrialized Democracies

      • Detlef Jahn
      Pages 125-150

  6. Looking Onward

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-301
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    2. Contemporary Problems and Future Perspectives of Empirical Research on Democracy

      • Dirk Berg-Schlosser
      Pages 303-320
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About this book

Parties, governments and elites are at the core of the study of democracy. The traditional view is that parties as collective actors play a paramount role in the democratic process. However, this classical perspective has been challenged by political actors, observers of modern democracy as well as political scientists. Modern political parties assume different roles, contemporary leaders can more heavily influence politics, governments face new constraints and new collective bodies continue to form, propose new ways of participation and policy making, and attract citizens and activists. In the light of these observations, the comparative study of democracy faces a number of important and still largely unsolved questions that the present volume will address.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Politik- und Kommunikation, Universität Greifswald, Salzburg, Austria

    Philipp Harfst

  • Tel Aviv, Israel

    Ina Kubbe

  • Politikwissemschaft, Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Thomas Poguntke

About the editors

Dr. Philipp Harfst is Senior Scientist at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Dr. Ina Kubbe is Post-Doctoral Fellow at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Dr. Thomas Poguntke is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Düsseldorf Party Research Institute (PRuF) at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany.


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