Political Parties and the Collapse of the Old OrdersSUNY Press, 1998 M01 1 - 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
The American Experience Public Skepticism Economic Dislocation and Partisan Decay | 1 |
The United Kingdom Change within Continuity | 19 |
French Political Parties A State within the State? | 33 |
Whither the Old Order? The Collapse of the GDR and the New German Party System | 55 |
Italy The Demise of the PostWar Partyocracy | 71 |
Canadian Political Parties Contemporary Changes | 95 |
Australia An Old Order Manages Change | 113 |
Mexico The End of OneParty Pluralism? | 137 |
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Political Parties and the Collapse of the Old Orders John Kenneth White,Philip John Davies Limited preview - 1999 |
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