Political Parties in Western Democracies

Download or read book Political Parties in Western Democracies written by SIMON M.. EPSTEIN FASS (LEON D.) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a brilliant, persuasive case that American political parties, so often dismissed as immature or ineffective compared with their European counterparts, are in fact old and durable political organizations, seriving well the needs of a pluralistic society. What chiefly distinguishes this work is the inclusion of considerable material on American partics in a comparative context to the analysis of British, Scandinavian, European, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand political parties.