Political parties in advanced industrial democracies / edited by Paul Webb, David M. Farrell, and Ian Holliday.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: political parties in advanced industrial democracies / Paul Webb -- Political parties in Britain: secular decline or adaptive resilience? / Paul Webb -- Italian parties: change and functionality / Luciano Bardi -- Party decline in the parties state? The changing environment of German politics / Susan E. Scarrow -- France: never a golden age / Andrew Knapp -- The colour purple: the end of predictable politics in the low countries -- Kris Deschouwer -- The Scandinavian party model at the crossroads / Jan Sundberg -- Party politics in Ireland: regularizing a volatile system / R.J. Murphy and David M. Farrell -- Spain: building a parties state in a new democracy / Ian Holliday -- Parties at the European level / Simon Hix -- Still functional after all these years: parties in the United States, 1960-2000 / John C. Green -- Canada's nineteenth-century cadre parties at the millennium / R. Kenneth Carty -- Political parties in Australia: Party stability in a utilitarian society / Ian McAllister -- Parties and society in New Zealand / Jack Vowles -- Conclusion: political parties and democratic control in advanced industrial societies / Paul Webb.

A survey of modern political parties and their role in contemporary democracy. It argues that parties have survived popular cynicism by remodelling themselves to the needs of an era in which patterns of linkage and communication with social groups have been transformed.

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