- Bib ID:
- 4557414
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Baldini, Gianfranco
- Description:
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- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- xiii, 229 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- Summary:
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"Elections and parties are obvious cornerstones of democratic regimes.Though intensively researched and widely debated through the post-war literature, these topics deserve continuous attention to keep up with an accelerating rate of change of both collective actors, legal rules, and their socio-political environment. The book gives a full account of past experience, present structures and processes, and probable developments, of the voters- party-electoral systems nexus in twenty-one advanced Western democracies. A special focus is devoted to volatility, i.e. the growing instability of voting choices. This - it is argued - is the indicator of a wholesale crisis of the electors-parties trust relationship and the underlying cause of an unprecedented party fragmentation and a decreasing effectiveness of electoral rules.
The analysis, descriptive, interpretative, and explanatory, is based on an original 1945-2007 comparative data set including all relevant political and institutional variables."--BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-217) and index.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Pappalardo, Adriano, 1948-
- Copyright:
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