Alan Siaroff - Comparative European Party Systems: An Analysis Of Parliamentary Elections Since 1945

Comparative European Party Systems, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive analysis across 48 party systems of party competition, electoral systems and their effects, and the classification of party systems and governments from 1945 through late-2018.

The book consists of three parts. provides an analysis of 10 additional country profiles of oscillating regimes such as Russia, Ukraine, and Balkan and Transcaucasus states.

Comparative European Party Systems provides an excellent overview of topical issues in comparative election and party system research and presents a wealth of information and quantitative data. It is a crucial reference for scholars and students of European and comparative politics, elections, electoral systems, and parties and party systems.

Alan Siaroff is Professor of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge, Canada.

Second Edition

Second edition published 2019

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First edition published by Routledge 2000

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Names: Siaroff, Alan, author.

Title: Comparative European party systems : an analysis of parliamentary elections since 1945 / Alan Siaroff.

Description: Second edition. | New York : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018035916 | ISBN 9781138888050 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138888098 (paperback) | ISBN 9781315713694 (master ebook) | ISBN 9781317498773 (web pdf) | ISBN 9781317498766 (ePub) | ISBN 9781317498759 (mobipocket/kindle)

Subjects: LCSH: Political partiesEurope. | EuropePolitics and government1945

Classification: LCC JN50 .S57 2019 | DDC 324.2094dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035916

ISBN: 978-1-138-88805-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-88809-8 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-71369-4 (ebk)

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In memory of my parents, whose lives covered almost all of the years under analysis here.