Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies

Drawing on the expertise of an impressive team of internationally known specialists, this book offers an unrivalled survey of modern political parties and their role in contemporary democracy. Through a rigorous comparative analysis of political parties operating in the world's advanced industrial democracies, the book argues that, while a degree of popular cynicism towards them is often chronic, though rarely acute, parties have adapted and survived as organizations, remodelling themselves to the needs of an era in which patterns of linkage and communication with social groups have been transformed.