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]
Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar [email protected]
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 ...
Political Candidate Selection: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Under-Representation in the UK
1st Edition
By Jeanette Ashe
August 29, 2022
The "secret garden of politics", where some win and others lose their candidate selection bids, and why some aspirant candidates are successful while others fail have been enduring puzzles within political science. This book solves this puzzle by proposing and applying a universally applicable...
Party Members and Their Importance in Non-EU Countries: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Sergiu Gherghina, Alexandra Iancu, Sorina Soare
December 13, 2021
Although party membership has been extensively analysed in the EU Members States from Western and Eastern Europe, there is a gap in systematic data collection and analyses for the other countries in the Balkans and post-Soviet region.This book provides new and innovative insights in the area of ...
Leaders, Factions and the Game of Intra-Party Politics
1st Edition
By Andrea Ceron
September 30, 2021
The book provides a comprehensive view on the internal life of parties and investigates the dynamics of intra-party politics in different party environments to explain in which circumstances the party leader is more or less bound by the wills of party factions. Analyzing almost 500 intra-party ...
Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe: Political Parties, Clientelism and State Capture
1st Edition
By Michal Klíma
April 01, 2021
This book offers a fascinating, thought-provoking and ground-breaking study of post-communist political life. It is published just as the countries of Central and Eastern Europe mark thirty years since gaining freedom and have embarked on the path of democracy.This book is one of the first ...
Do Parties Still Represent?: An Analysis of the Representativeness of Political Parties in Western Democracies
1st Edition
Edited
By Knut Heidar, Bram Wauters
December 18, 2020
This book examines the representativeness of party membership and analyses the potential consequences of changing representativeness. Parties with high membership ratios, as well as those experiencing severe decline, are compared and examined across countries with varying constitutional ...
Party Systems in Young Democracies: Varieties of institutionalization in Sub-Saharan Africa
1st Edition
By Edalina Rodrigues Sanches
December 18, 2020
Institutionalization has become a paramount concept to compare party systems in regions spanned by the third wave of democratization. Based on raw electoral data from 30 sub-Saharan African countries observed between 1966 and 2016, this text explores the causes and mechanisms of Party System ...
Opposition Parties in European Legislatures: Conflict or Consensus?
1st Edition
Edited
By Elisabetta De Giorgi, Gabriella Ilonszki
June 30, 2020
Democratic theory considers it fundamental for parties in government to be both responsive to their electorate and responsible to internal and international constraints. But recently these two roles have become more and more incompatible with Mair’s growing divide in European party systems between ...
Party System Change, the European Crisis and the State of Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Lisi
June 30, 2020
Party systems are crucial elements for the functioning of political systems and representative democracies. With several European countries experiencing significant changes recently, it is necessary to update our knowledge. This volume analyses party system changes in Europe in the 21st century by ...
The Regulation of Post-Communist Party Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Fernando Casal Bértoa, Ingrid van Biezen
December 12, 2019
The question of how political parties are, and ought to be, regulated has assumed an increased importance in recent years, both within the scholarly community and among policy-makers and politicians as the state assumes an increasingly active role in the management of, and control over, their ...