The Dynamics of Two-Party Politics: Party Structures and the Management of Competition

by Alan J. Ware

This book examines the role played by the parties themselves in two-party systems. It rejects the argument that the behavior of the parties is determined largely by social forces or by the supposed logic of the electoral market. Instead, it shows that both structure and agency can matter. It focuses on three major aspects of change in two-party systems: (i) why occasionally major parties (such as the British Liberals) collapse; (ii) why collapsed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199564434
• ISBN13: 9780199564439
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"