Party Politics in European Microstates (Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138634492 ISBN 13: 9781138634497

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

This book represents the first comprehensive study of the evolution of parties and party systems in all nine democratic European states with less than one million inhabitants.

As small political units have for long been considered to be most conducive to stable democracy, this volume analyses the actual role of political parties and partisan competition in the operation of modern democracy in those European microstates. Drawing on the crucial contribution of leading country experts in the field, it provides rich, systematic contextualized knowledge on these lesser-known cases. It further contributes to the mainstreaming of small state research in social science studies by comparing the experience of party politics in European microstates with that of larger countries in the same region of the world.

This volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of party systems and political parties, elections and democracy, small states, European politics and more broadly of comparative politics.

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About the Author

Fernando Casal Bértoa is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Patrick Dumont is Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138634492
• ISBN 13: 9781138634497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Casal Bértoa Fernando, Dumont Patrick