Muutke küpsiste eelistusi

New Parties in Government: In Power for the First Time [Pehme köide]

Edited by (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 224 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 410 g, 20 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
  • Ilmumisaeg: 10-Feb-2011
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415663695
  • ISBN-13: 9780415663694
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 224 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 410 g, 20 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
  • Ilmumisaeg: 10-Feb-2011
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415663695
  • ISBN-13: 9780415663694

Party literature is largely focused on the rise and success of new parties and their effects on party systems and older parties. This book, on the other hand, provides a valuable and original addition to such literature by analyzing what happens to a party when it enters government for the first time.

Leading contributors assess how these parties, whether old or new, change when entering government by answering a set of questions:

  • How and why has their role changed?
  • What are the consequences of change?
  • What explains the evolution from principled opposition to loyal opposition and eventually to participation in the executive?
  • Which characteristics of the parties can be held responsible?
  • Which characteristics of the parties’ context should be brought into the picture?
  • What have been the effects of the status change on party organization, party ideology and electoral results?

Covering a wide range of European parties such as the Finish Greens, right wing parties (FN, Lega Nord and Alleanza Nazionale) and new parties in Italy , The Netherlands and Sweden to name a few; this book will be of particular interest to scholars and students concerned with party systems, political parties and comparative politics.

List of tables
xiii
List of figures
xiv
List of contributors
xv
Series editor's preface xviii
1 Comparing newly governing parties
1(16)
Kris Deschouwer
New and newly governing parties
1(2)
A new phase in life
3(3)
Exploring diversity
6(3)
Common patterns?
9(8)
2 The organizational costs of public office
17(28)
Nicole Bolleyer
New parties and the challenge of public office
17(2)
New parties as representatives and organizations: analytical lenses and conceptual caveats
19(2)
New parties as organizational actors: newness and two dimensions of vulnerability
21(2)
The gains of government
23(1)
The costs of public office
24(13)
New parties in old party systems and the organizational costs of public office
37(8)
3 Newly governing parties in Italy: comparing the PDSI/DS, Lega Nord and Forza Italia
45(20)
Jonathan Hopkin
Piero Ignazi
Introduction
45(1)
Changes in the Italian party system: crisis and collapse 1992-94
45(3)
Newly governing parties in Italy: the centre-left
48(7)
Newly governing parties of the centre-right
55(6)
Conclusion
61(4)
4 The short road to power - and the long way back: newly governing parties in the Netherlands
65(20)
Paul Lucardie
Christian Pierre Ghillebaert
Introduction
65(1)
Government participation and ideological change
66(10)
Government participation and organisational change
76(4)
Conclusions
80(5)
5 Close but no cigar? Newly governing and nearly governing parties in Sweden and New Zealand
85(19)
Tim Bale
Magnus Blomgren
Introduction
85(1)
Contexts
85(7)
Experiences
92(10)
Conclusion
102(2)
6 Greens in a rainbow: the impact of participation in government of the Green parties in Belgium
104(17)
Pascal Delwit
Emilie Van Haute
Introduction
104(1)
The road to power
105(4)
Membership development
109(1)
Intra-party changes
110(6)
Conclusion
116(5)
7 Moving from movement to government: the transformation of the Finnish Greens
121(16)
Jan Sundberg
Niklas Wilhelmsson
Introduction
121(1)
The framework
121(1)
The success of new parties in the Finnish party system
122(3)
The threshold of forming the Green Party
125(4)
The maximisation of Green votes
129(1)
The threshold of relevance: in and out
130(2)
Who are the Greens' supporters?
132(1)
Conclusion
133(4)
8 Independents in government: a sui generis model?
137(20)
Liam Weeks
Introduction
137(1)
Independents: who are they?
137(1)
Why are Independents like new parties?
138(3)
The nature of Independents' support status
141(1)
Why are Independents involved in the government process?
142(3)
The cases
145(2)
Consequences of participation in government
147(6)
Conclusion
153(4)
9 The electoral fate of new parties in government
157(18)
Jo Buelens
Airo Hino
The electoral fate of newly governing parties
158(2)
Why do some new parties survive while others fail?
160(11)
Concluding remarks
171(1)
Appendix
172(3)
10 Populists in power: attitudes toward immigrants after the Austrian Freedom Party entered government
175(14)
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten
Introduction
175(1)
Theories of how parties interact with public opinion
176(1)
Government inclusion as a new dimension
177(1)
Opinion leadership of the populist right parties themselves as a new variable
178(1)
Summary of hypotheses
179(1)
Empirical evaluation of the hypotheses
180(1)
Attitudes toward immigration and asylum policy over time
180(3)
Partisanship and anti-immigrant sentiment
183(2)
Government inclusion
185(1)
Conclusion
186(3)
Index 189
Kris Deschouwer is Professor of politics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.