Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy

by Ian McAllister, David M. Farrell, Russell J. Dalton

Book Overview

Is the party over? Parties are the central institutions of representative democracy, but critics increasingly claim that parties are failing to perform their democratic functions. Political Parties and Democratic Linkage assembles unprecedented cross-national evidence to assess how parties link the individual citizen to the formation of governments and then to government policies. Using the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems and other recent cross-national...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199599351
• ISBN13: 9780199599356
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"