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If democracy without political parties is unthinkable, what would happen if the role of political parties if the democratic process is weakened? The ongoing debate about the vitality of political parties is also a debate about the vitality of representative democracy. Leading scholars in the field of party research assess the evidence for partisan decline or adaptation for the OECD nations in this book. It documents the broad-scale erosion of the public's partisan identities in virtually all advanced industrial democracies. Partisan de-alignment is diminishing involvement in electoral politics, and for those who participate it leads to more volatility in their voting choices, an openness to new political appeals, and less predictablity in their party preferences. Political parties have adapted to partisan de-alignment by strengthening their internal organizational structures and partially isolating themselves from the ebbs and flows of electoral politics. Centralized, professionalized parties with short time horizons have replaced the ideologically-driven mass parties of the past. This study also examines the role of parties within government, and finds that parties have retained t

Author

Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199240821

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences