Lawson / Merkl When Parties Fail

Emerging Alternative Organizations
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5949-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 606 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Throughout history parties have faltered and new groups have emerged, but rarely has this process been so accelerated, so widespread, and so conducive to dramatic political change as in our present era. When Parties Fail explores alternative organizations in depth and comparatively. Among the organizations discussed are environmentalist groups, such as the West German and Swedish Greens, the Italian Radicals, and local protest groups in Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. Also considered are new groups seeking attention in unresponsive party systems, such as the Danish Gilstrup party, the British SDP, and American PACs; community parties and movements in Israel, India, Britain, and the American South; and antiauthoritarian movements in Poland (Solidarity), Taiwan, and Ghana. The case of France provides an example of major party survival. Three broadly comparative chapters consider the reasons for major party persistence in some nations and the causes and impact of their decline in others.

The contributors to the book are David Apter, Myron J. Aronoff, Liang-shing Fan, Frank B. Feigert, Zvi Gitelman, Ronald J. Herring, Jon Kraus, Kay Lawson, Tom Mackie, Peter H. Merkl, Raffaela Y. Nanetti, Angelo Panebianco, Mogens N. Pedersen, Geoffrey Pridham, Peter Pulzer, Richard Rose, Donald Schoonmaker, Frank Sorauf, Robert C. A. Sorensen, Evert Vedung, Hanes Walton, Jr., and Frank L. Wilson.

Originally published in 1988.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lawson, Kay

Merkl, Peter H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
ONE. Alternative Organizations: Environmental, Supplementary, Communitarian, and Antiauthoritarian, pg. 3
TWO. When Linkage Fails, pg. 13
THREE. The Challenge of the Greens to the West German Party System, pg. 41
FOUR. The Swedish Five-Party Syndrome and the Environmentalists, pg. 76
FIVE. The Italian Radicals: New Wine in an Old Bottle, pg. 110
SIX. Civic Action Groups in Switzerland: Challenge to Political Parties?, pg. 137
SEVEN. Community Groups as Alternative Political Organizations in Chicago, pg. 170
EIGHT. Sanrizuka: A Case of Violent Protest in a Multiparty State, pg. 196
NINE. The Social Democratic Party in Britain: Protest or New Political Tendency?, pg. 229
TEN. The Defeat of All Parties: The Danish Folketing Election, 1973, pg. 257
ELEVEN. Parties and Political Action Committees in American Politics, pg. 282
TWELVE. The Failure of Israel's Labor Party and the Emergence of Gush Emunim, pg. 309
THIRTEEN. When Parties Fail: Ethnic Protest in Britain in the 1970s, pg. 338
FOURTEEN. The National Democratic Party of Alabama and Party Failure in America, pg. 365
FIFTEEN. Stealing Congress's Thunder: The Rise to Power of a Communist Movement in South India, pg. 389
SIXTEEN. The Limits of Organization and Enthusiasm: The Double Failure of the Solidarity Movement and the Polish United Workers' Party, pg. 421
SEVENTEEN. Independents and Independence: Challenges to One-Party Domination in Taiwan, pg. 447
EIGHTEEN. Political Party Failures and Political Responses in Ghana, pg. 464
NINETEEN. When Parties Refuse to Fail: The Case of France, pg. 503
TWENTY. Do Parties Persist or Fail? The Big Trade-off Facing Organizations, pg. 533
TWENTY-ONE. The Challengers and the Party Systems, pg. 561
Notes on Contributors, pg. 589
Index, pg. 593