Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems
About the Book Series
This new series focuses on major issues affecting political parties in a broad sense. Therefore, we welcome any high-quality suggestions for edited, single or co-authored books dealing with political parties and party systems in Europe and beyond (by which we mean we are also open to comparative projects examining regions outside of Europe). In particular, we would like to invite book proposals that aim to improve our present understanding of political parties and party system through the examination of the following issues:
- the crisis of political parties and the challenges party organizations face in the contemporary world
- the increasing internal complexity of party organizations in terms of regulation, funding, membership, etc.
- the more frequent presence of party system change
- the development of political parties and party systems in under-researched countries
We are open to a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. Comparative works will be certainly privileged. We also encourage proposals with a strong policy-impact focus.
For guidance on how to structure your proposal, please visit:
https://www.routledge.com/our-customers/authors/publishing-guidelines
Book proposals should be sent to the series editors:
Ingrid van Biezen [email protected]
Fernando Casal Bértoa [email protected]
Money Rules: Parties, Oligarchs and Funding Regulation in Post-Soviet Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Fernando Casal Bértoa, Levan Tsutskiridze
August 29, 2025
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation of party finance in post-Soviet countries by leading academics and practitioners in the field. Through a series of cutting-edge chapters, using both original quantitative and qualitative data, it systematically sheds theoretical and ...
Institutional Roles and Radical Right-Wing Populism: How Proximity to Power Affects Party Discourse
1st Edition
By Anna Heapy-Silander
February 27, 2025
This book examines how the proximity to government and different institutional roles–being in opposition, government or supporting a minority government–influence European radical right-wing populist (RRWP) parties’ discourse. Analysing case studies of different institutional roles – Finns Party (...
Party Organization and Electoral Success of New Anti-establishment Parties
1st Edition
By Tomáš Cirhan
December 18, 2024
This book examines the new anti-establishment parties electorally succeeding at the expense of their established counterparts and argues that party organization matters for their electoral success. It explores a relationship between these parties’ electoral success and their party organization. ...
Southern European Challenger Parties against the Mainstream: Podemos, SYRIZA, and MoVimento 5 Stelle in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Davide Vittori
November 28, 2024
This book focuses on the rise of new challenger parties and the magnitude of their impact on political systems and the existing political order in Southern Europe in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Examining Podemos (Spain), SYRIZA (Greece), and M5S (Italy), it highlights the differences and ...
Political Parties and the State in the Global South: State-Building, Corruption and Party System Change
1st Edition
By Albertus Schoeman
October 14, 2024
This book introduces a new framework for understanding how the relationship between political parties and the state shapes the development of political parties, party systems and democratic consolidation. Drawing on comparative case studies spanning the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and East and ...
Exploring Party Switching in East-Central European Legislatures: Party Drifters, Mavericks, and Chameleons
1st Edition
By Andrzej Antoszewski, Przemysław Żukiewicz
September 06, 2024
This book challenges the approach of relying on election outcomes to analyse party systems, contending that changes can be also identified and documented beyond the scope of parliamentary elections through legislative party switching. It argues that significant party system changes occur often ...
Party Politics in European Microstates
1st Edition
Edited
By Fernando Casal Bértoa, Patrick Dumont
May 27, 2024
This book represents the first comprehensive study of the evolution of parties and party systems in all nine democratic European states with less than one million inhabitants. As small political units have for long been considered to be most conducive to stable democracy, this volume analyses the ...
Party Families in Western Europe
1st Edition
By Peter Egge Langsæther
July 21, 2023
This comprehensive and comparative book makes clear what party families are and, in doing so, helps categorise and make sense of parties in different countries. It describes the ideology of the families in Western Europe as well as classifying political parties accordingly. Furthermore, the book ...
New Paths for Selecting Political Elites: Investigating the impact of inclusive Candidate and Party Leader Selection Methods
1st Edition
Edited
By Giulia Sandri, Antonella Seddone
May 31, 2023
This book provides a cross-country study of the consequences of the expansion of intra-party democracy, the trend towards more inclusive methods of selection for party candidates and leaders, and the impact of these on political elites in terms of sociopolitical profile and patterns of careers. It...
Party Leaders and their Selection Rules in Western Europe
1st Edition
By Bruno Marino
May 31, 2023
This book analyses the determinants behind the openings in party leader selection rules (leaders' selectorate) in 10 Western European countries and more than 55 parties between the mid-1980s and the mid-2010s. Presenting a novel and revealing theoretical and empirical framework, it tackles the ...
Political Incivility in the Parliamentary, Electoral and Media Arena: Crossing Boundaries
1st Edition
Edited
By Annemarie S. Walter
January 09, 2023
This edited volume affords conceptual and analytical convergence in the study of political incivility by bringing together theoretical and empirical work of scholars from various (sub)disciplines studying political incivility within European countries and the USA. It addresses the needs and ...
The Resistible Corrosion of Europe’s Center-Left After 2008
1st Edition
Edited
By Georg Menz
September 30, 2022
This book examines and explains the Center-Left’s political decline since 2008, whilst analyzing the factors that account for its sagging electoral and popular support, losing voters both to the Far-Left, the Far-Right, and abstentions. Focusing on the era since the 2008 financial crisis in ...