Description
Key Features:
- Discusses the ways in which social and institutional factors shape party systems
- Provides a rich conspectus of the different party systems which exist across the democratic world today
- Examines the connections between party organisation and party systems using diverse real-world examples
- Explores the impact of multi-partyism and ideological polarisation on governmental stability and the role these issues play in shaping government performance and political legitimacy
Both stimulating and incisive, the Advanced Introduction to Party Systems will be an indispensable read for academics and students in politics and public policy, political geography and geopolitics, international relations, and leadership studies. It will also be a fundamental resource for policy makers and practitioners wanting to better understand party systems today.
Book Information
ISBN 9781035313280
Author Paul Webb
Format Hardback
Page Count 166
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd