Overview

New Parties in Old Party Systems addresses a pertinent yet neglected issue in comparative party research: why are some new parties that enter national parliament able to defend a niche on the national level, while other fail to do so? Unlike most existing studies, which strongly focus on electoral (short-term) success or particular party families, this book examines the conditions for the organizational persistence and electoral sustainability of the 140, organizationally new parties that entered their national parliaments in seventeen democracies from 1968 to 2011. The book presents a new theoretical perspective on party institutionalization, which considers the role of both structural and agential factors driving party evolution. It thereby fills some important lacunae in current cross-national research. First, it theorizes the interplay between structural (pre)conditions for party building and the choices of party founders and leaders, whose interplay shapes parties' institutionalization patterns crucial for their evolution, before and after entering national parliament. Second, this approach is substantiated empirically by advanced statistical methods assessing the role of party origin for new party persistence and sustainability. These analyses are combined with a wide range of in-depth case studies capturing how intra-organizational dynamics shape party success and failure. By accounting for new parties' longer-term performance, the study sheds light on the conditions under which the spectacular rise of new parties in advanced democracies is likely to substantively change old party systems. Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu.

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Author:   Nicole Bolleyer (Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Exeter)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9780199646067

ISBN 10:   0199646066
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Disentangling Dimensions and Sources of Party Success: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges 3: Between Leadership and Structure Formation: The Challenges of Party Institutionalization 4: Patterns of New Party Persistence and Sustainability in 17 Democracies 5: The Leadership-Structure Dilemma in Green and Religious New Parties: Short-term Trouble but Long-Term Endurance through Fully-Fledged Institutionalization 6: The Leadership-Structure Dilemma in New Liberal and New Left Parties: Short-Term Success but Long-Term Decline through Partial Institutionalization 7: The Leadership-Structure Dilemma in Rooted New Right Parties: Reinforcing or Undermining Advantageous Formative Conditions? 8: The Leadership-Structure Dilemma in Entrepreneurial New Right Parties: From Disintegration to Fully-Fledged Institutionalization 9: Conclusions

Reviews

Exceptionally well written, the book combines a sound conceptualization, operationalization, and case selection with a rigorous methodological approach, complementing a large-N (140) quantitative analysis with a considerable number (37) of in-depth qualitative case studies...the book is clearly destined to become a classic, not just among academics but also practitioners. * Fernando Casal Bertoa, University of Nottingham * This book is a very welcome contribution for scholars of party politics and comparative politics alike, and bears great theoretical and empirical significance. * Mattia Zulianello, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence, Political Studies Review *

This book is a very welcome contribution for scholars of party politics and comparative politics alike, and bears great theoretical and empirical significance. Mattia Zulianello, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence, Political Studies Review

Author Information

Nicole Bolleyer is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter. She studied at the University of Mannheim, the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. She has published widely in the areas of comparative federalism and comparative party politics. Her numerous articles have appeared in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Party Politics, the European Political Science Review, Governance, Comparative European Politics, Political Studies, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. New Parties in Old Party Systems is her second monograph published in the Comparative Politics Series. Her first book Intergovernmental Cooperation was published in 2009.

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