Party System Change, the European Crisis and the State of Democracy
Party systems are crucial elements for the functioning of political systems and representative democracies. With several European countries experiencing significant changes recently, it is necessary to update our knowledge.
This volume analyzes party system changes in Europe in the 21st century by considering several dimensions such as interparty competition, the cleavage structure, electoral volatility and the emergence of new actors. The book describes the principal continuities and changes in party systems in Europe; analyzes the main explanations for these trends; and assesses the impact of the crisis on the patterns observed. By considering a wide range of Western and Eastern European countries, and focusing on the parameters of party system change, this book seeks to fill an important gap in the literature through a comparative analysis of the evolution of party systems in Europe over the last decades.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties, party systems and politics, electoral behavior as well as more broadly to European politics, comparative politics, political representation and the quality of democracies.
Marco Lisi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems
Series Editors: Ingrid van Biezen
Leiden University, the Netherlands, and Fernando Casal Brtoa, University of Nottingham, UK
This new series focuses on major issues affecting political parties in a broad sense. It welcomes a wide-range of theoretical and methodological approaches on political parties and party systems in Europe and beyond, including comparative works examining regions outside of Europe. In particular, it aims to improve our present understanding of these topics through the examination of the crisis of political parties and challenges party organizations face in the contemporary world, the increasing internal complexity of party organizations in terms of regulation, funding, membership, the more frequent presence of party system change, and the development of political parties and party systems in under-researched countries.
The Regulation of Post-Communist Party Politics
Edited by Fernando Casal Brtoa and Ingrid van Biezen
Party Systems in Young Democracies
Varieties of Institutionalization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Edalina Rodrigues Sanches
Opposition Parties in European Legislatures
Conflict or Consensus?
Edited by Elisabetta De Giorgi and Gabriella Ilonszki
Party Members and Their Importance in Non-EU Countries
A Comparative Analysis
Edited by Sergiu Gherghina, Alexandra Iancu and Sorina Soare
Party System Change, the European Crisis and the State of Democracy
Edited by Marco Lisi
Party System Change, the European Crisis and the State of Democracy
Edited by Marco Lisi
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Contents
Marco Lisi
Rgis Dandoy and Jeroen Joly
Antony Todorov
Karina Kosiara-Pedersen and Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Simon Labouret
Patricia Daehnhardt
Emmanouil Tsatsanis
Attila gh
Elisabetta De Giorgi
Simon Otjes
Katarzyna Walecka
Carlos Jalali
Sergiu Gherghina
Juan Rodrguez-Teruel, Oscar Barber, Astrid Barrio and Fernando Casal Brtoa
Frederico Pedroso Rocha
Eunice Goes
Marco Lisi
Guide
Attila gh is a Professor in the Political Science Department at Budapest Corvinus University. His major research interest is comparative politics with special regard to the EU developments, focusing on the Europeanization and Democratization in the New Member States. He has published more than 20 books and dozens of papers in international journals.
Oscar Barber is Assistant Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). He has been a Lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and Catalonias Open University (OUC) and Visiting Professor at LSE, Firenze, Edinburgh and Exeter. His main areas of interest are party politics, decentralization and political elites. His latest contributions are in Regionalist Parties in Western Europe: Dimensions of Success (Routledge), The Politics of Party Leadership (Oxford), Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective (Routledge) and Party Members and Activists (Routledge).
Astrid Barrio is Assistant Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). Master in Sciences-Po (Paris, 1999), she has previously been a Lecturer in Barcelona (UOC and UAB) and a Researcher in Montpellier (UM). Her main areas of research are party politics and nationalism. Her PhD (Alianzas polticas y cambio organizativo en los partidos) was awarded the 2008 Prize of the Spanish Political Science Association. Her latest contributions are in the South European Politics and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Regionalist Parties in Western Europe: Dimensions of Success (Routledge) and Party Members and Activists (Routledge).
Fernando CasalBrtoa is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom). His work has been published in European Journal of Political Research, Sociological Methods and Research, West European Politics, Party Politics, Democratization, Political Studies Review, Government and Opposition, International Political Science Review, South European Society and Politics and East European Politics.
Patricia Daehnhardt is an Assistant Professor in International Relations, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lusada University and a Researcher at the Portuguese Institute for International Affairs (IPRI-UNL). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was the Chair of the Section International Relations of the Portuguese Association for Political Science (APCP) between 2014 and 2016. She has collaborated with the National Defense Institute since 2008. Her research focuses on German foreign policy, Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) of the European Union, the United States, Russia and Europe in the international order. Patricia Daehnhardt has several national and international publications (Orcid.org/:0000-0003-0267-4394).
