Party Realignment in Western Europe

Party Realignment in Western Europe PDF Author: Hagevi, Magnus
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1800884737
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Book Description
Identifying a crisis for representative democracy in Western European party systems, this essential book studies the widening gap between political parties’ ideological economic Left–Right rhetoric. Combining in-depth theoretical analysis with empirical research, it addresses whether political party ideologies are converging or diverging, and whether these changes are initiated by the parties themselves, aligned with voter demand, or forced by economic globalization.