Political Parties and the Collapse of the Old OrdersJohn Kenneth White, Philip John Davies State University of New York Press, 1999 M01 7 - 251 pages With the passage of the Cold War, political parties in nearly every corner of the globe have undergone a vast upheaval. Old ideas have become obsolete, electoral maps have been redrawn, party structures have been rebuilt, and new leaders have emerged. Political Parties and the Collapse of the Old Orders describes these changes using several countries as laboratories: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Israel, South Africa, and Russia. While the nature and extent of the political upheavals vary from place to place, the transformations in each nation's party system have been extraordinary. In this "new world order," the old political arrangements and old ways of doing things have disappeared. The altered states of political parties in the post-Cold War world pose a central question: what does change look like? The answers given here illuminate our understanding of why the world has changed and how political parties are attempting to cope with it. |
Contents
Change within Continuity | 19 |
A State within the State | 33 |
The Collapse of the | 55 |
The Demise of the PostWar Partyocracy | 71 |
Contemporary Changes | 95 |
An Old Order Manages Change | 113 |
The End of OneParty Pluralism? | 137 |
Political Parties and the Emergence of Israels | 165 |
Rise and Demise of Political Parties | 185 |
Party Formation and the Legacy of | 205 |
Parties and the Millennium | 223 |
About the Authors | 239 |
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