Political parties and the collapse of the old orders
"With the passage of the Cold War, political parties in nearly every corner of the globe have undergone a vast upheaval. 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. 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1998
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, ©1998
Aufsatzsammlung
xiv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780791440674, 9780791440681, 9780585090351, 0791440672, 0791440680, 0585090351
38765003
Preface: political parties in an era of change / John Kenneth White and Philip John Davies
The American experience: public skepticism, economic dislocation, and partisan decay
John Kenneth White and Philip John Davies
The United Kingdom: change within continuity / Tim Hames
French political parties: a state within the state / Colette Ysmal
Whither the old order: the collapse of the GDR and the "new" German party system / Charlie Jeffrey and Charles Lees
Italy: the demise of the post-war partyocracy / Nick Carter
Canadian political parties: contemporary changes / Arthur L. Johnson
Australia: an old order manages change / Rodney Smith
Mexico: the end of one-party pluralism? / Michael W. Foley
Political parties and the emergence of Israel's second republic / Asher Arian
South Africa: rise and demise of political parties / Christopher Thornhill
Russia: party formation and the legacy of the one-party state / Edwin Bacon
Parties and the millennium / Susan J. Tolchin