Political Parties and Electoral Change
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Political Parties and Electoral Change

Party Responses to Electoral Markets

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Political Parties and Electoral Change

Party Responses to Electoral Markets

About this book

How have Europe?s mainstream political parties responded to the long-term decline in voter loyalties?

What are the consequences of this change in the electoral markets in which parties now operate?

Popular disengagement, disaffection, and withdrawal on the one hand, and increasing popular support for protest parties on the other, have become the hallmarks of modern European politics.

This book provides an excellent account of how political parties in Western Europe are perceiving and are responding to these contemporary challenges of electoral dealignment.

Each chapter employs a common format to present and compare the changing strategies of established parties and party systems in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Ireland.

The result is an invaluable portrait of the changing electoral environment and how parties are interacting with each another and voters today.

Political Parties and Electoral Change is essential reading for anybody seeking a deeper understanding of contemporary electoral politics and of the challenges facing west European party systems.

Peter Mair is Professor of Comparative Politics at Leiden University.

Wolfgang C. M ller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Mannheim and previously taught at the University of Vienna.

Fritz Plasser is Professor of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Notes on Contributors
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. Chapter 1 - Introduction: Electoral Challenges and Party Responses
  7. Chapter 2 - Party Responses to the Changing Electoral Market in Britain
  8. Chapter 3 - Ephemeral Victories? France's Governing Parties, the Ecologists, and the Far Right
  9. Chapter 4 - Embracing Dealignment, Combating Realigment: German Parties Respond
  10. Chapter 5 - Party Responses to Electoral Dealignment in Italy
  11. Chapter 6 - Party Responses to the Erosion of Voter Loyalities in Austria: Weakness as an Advantage and Strength as a Handica
  12. Chapter 7 - Political Parties and Their Reactions to the Erosion of Voter Loyality in Belgium: Caught in a Trap
  13. Chapter 8 - Electoral Fortunes and Responses of the Social Democratic Party and Liberal Party in Denmark: Ups and Downs
  14. Chapter 9 - Political Parties in Electoral Markets in Postwar Ireland
  15. Chapter 10 - Conclusion: Political Parties in Changing Electoral Markets
  16. Index