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Parties under Pressure

The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation
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320 Seiten
Englisch
The University of Chicago Presserschienen am07.08.2024
An illuminating investigation into why some parties evolve with their times while others fall behind. Around the world, established political parties face mounting pressures: insurgents on the Left and Right, altered media environments, new policy challenges, and the erosion of traditional strongholds, to name just a few. Yet parties have differed enormously in their ability to move with the times and update their offers to voters. This variation matters. While adaptation does not guarantee a party´s electoral success, the failure to modernize can spell its decline, even collapse, and create openings for radical and populist parties that may threaten the future of liberal democracy. Parties under Pressure examines why some parties adapt meaningfully to social, economic, and political transformations while others flounder, focusing especially on the fate of Western Europe´s Christian democratic parties. Matthias Dilling reveals the under-appreciated importance of party factions. While very high levels of factionalism are counter-productive and create paralysis, more moderate levels of factionalism help parties to adapt by giving visibility to fresh groups and ideas. Dilling draws on extensive archival research in Germany, Italy, and Austria, as well as evidence from France, Japan, and beyond. Taking a comparative-historical approach, Parties under Pressure sheds new light on parties´ varying records of adaptive reforms over more than seventy-five years.mehr
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KlappentextAn illuminating investigation into why some parties evolve with their times while others fall behind. Around the world, established political parties face mounting pressures: insurgents on the Left and Right, altered media environments, new policy challenges, and the erosion of traditional strongholds, to name just a few. Yet parties have differed enormously in their ability to move with the times and update their offers to voters. This variation matters. While adaptation does not guarantee a party´s electoral success, the failure to modernize can spell its decline, even collapse, and create openings for radical and populist parties that may threaten the future of liberal democracy. Parties under Pressure examines why some parties adapt meaningfully to social, economic, and political transformations while others flounder, focusing especially on the fate of Western Europe´s Christian democratic parties. Matthias Dilling reveals the under-appreciated importance of party factions. While very high levels of factionalism are counter-productive and create paralysis, more moderate levels of factionalism help parties to adapt by giving visibility to fresh groups and ideas. Dilling draws on extensive archival research in Germany, Italy, and Austria, as well as evidence from France, Japan, and beyond. Taking a comparative-historical approach, Parties under Pressure sheds new light on parties´ varying records of adaptive reforms over more than seventy-five years.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-226-83023-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum07.08.2024
Seiten320 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 23 mm
Gewicht540 g
Artikel-Nr.61508394

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Part I: Problem and Theory 1. The Puzzle: The Varying Substance and Speed of Party Adaptation 2. The Theory: Factionalism, Party Adaptation, and Multilevel Path Dependence Part II: The Main Cases 3. Italy´s DC: Centralized Leadership Selection, High Factionalism, and Centrifugal Pressure 4. Austria´s ÖVP: Decentralized Leadership Selection, Low Factionalism, and Organizational Rigidity 5. Germany´s CDU: Mixed Leadership Selection, Moderate Factionalism, and Adaptation Part III: Comparative Perspectives 6. Christian Democratic Adaptation beyond Italy, Austria, and Germany 7. Party Adaptation beyond Post-1990 Christian Democracy Conclusion: Lessons for the Study of Party Adaptation, Factionalism, and Party Organization Acknowledgments Appendixes Notes References Indexmehr

Autor

Matthias Dilling is assistant professor of political science and qualitative methods at Trinity College Dublin. He previously taught at Oxford University and Swansea University and was a visiting researcher at Yale University and the University of Vienna. He received the American Political Science Association's Walter Dean Burnham Award for the best dissertation in politics and history.