How Political Parties Respond: Interest Aggregation Revisited

by Kay Lawson and Thomas Poguntke

Book Overview

How Political Parties Respond focuses specifically on the question of interest aggregation. Do parties today perform that function? If so, how? If not, in what different ways do they seek to show themselves responsive to the electorate?

This fascinating book studies these questions with reference to Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Canada. A chapter on Russia demonstrates how newly powerful private...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415664152
• ISBN13: 9780415664158
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"