When Parties Fail Emerging Alternative Organizations

Lawson, Kay (Editor)/ Merkl, Peter H. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0691634491 / ISBN 13: 9780691634494

Published by Princeton Univ Pr, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When Parties Fail Emerging Alternative Organizations
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691634491
• ISBN 13: 9780691634494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Throughout history parties have faltered and new groups have emerged, but rarely has this process been so accelerated, so widespread, and so conducive to dramatic political change as in our present era. When Parties Fail explores alternative organizations in depth and comparatively. Among the organizations discussed are environmentalist groups, such as the West German and Swedish Greens, the Italian Radicals, and local protest groups in Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. Also considered are new groups seeking attention in unresponsive party systems, such as the Danish Gilstrup party, the British SDP, and American PACs; community parties and movements in Israel, India, Britain, and the American South; and antiauthoritarian movements in Poland (Solidarity), Taiwan, and Ghana. The case of France provides an example of major party survival. Three broadly comparative chapters consider the reasons for major party persistence in some nations and the causes and impact of their decline in others.

The contributors to the book are David Apter, Myron J. Aronoff, Liang-shing Fan, Frank B. Feigert, Zvi Gitelman, Ronald J. Herring, Jon Kraus, Kay Lawson, Tom Mackie, Peter H. Merkl, Raffaela Y. Nanetti, Angelo Panebianco, Mogens N. Pedersen, Geoffrey Pridham, Peter Pulzer, Richard Rose, Donald Schoonmaker, Frank Sorauf, Robert C. A. Sorensen, Evert Vedung, Hanes Walton, Jr., and Frank L. Wilson.

Originally published in 1988.

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About the Author

KAY LAWSON is Professor of Science at San Francisco State University and the Sorbonne.

Peter H. Merkl is one of the leading authorities on modern Germany. He is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.