Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems) - Hardcover

Dalton, Russell J.; Farrell, David M.; McAllister, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199599351 ISBN 13: 9780199599356

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2011

Synopsis

Examines how political parties ensure the functioning of the democratic process in contemporary societies

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About the Author

Russell J. Dalton is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at UC Irvine. Dalton has been awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship, Scholar-in-Residence at the Barbra Streisand Center, German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship, and the POSCO Fellowship at the East West Center in Hawaii. He is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.


David M. Farrell is a specialist in the study of parties and electoral systems, he is founding co-editor of Party Politics and co-editor of the ECPR/Oxford University Press series, Comparative Politics. He is Professor of Politics and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin.


Ian McAllister has been director of the Australian Election Study since 1987, and was Chair of the Comparative Study of Electoral System project from 2004 to 2009. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Corresponding Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Australian National University.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199599351
• ISBN 13: 9780199599356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 258