Citizens, Parties, and the State: A Reappraisal - Hardcover
This book is a major analysis of the role of political parties in the development and promotion of democracy. Alan Ware offers a highly original discussion of an area of political life that has remained surprisingly underexamined--the impact of parties on democratic life. Citizens, Parties, and the State successfully combines a comparative study of parties with a comprehensive discussion of democratic theory. It examines the role of parties in one-party political systems, focusing on the issue of whether there can be democracy in one-party systems. These party systems are then contrasted with those found in representative democracies.
The author presents a detailed analysis of the development, evolution, and structure of political parties in the West, exploring such issues as the nature of voter-choice in two-party and multi-party systems, and the question of who exactly controls the political system--the voter or the parties, the political elite or the grass-roots activists. Finally, he looks at the internal operations of political parties and the fate of attempts to democratize them. He has drawn extensive conclusions about the proper place of parties and party systems in democratic theory.
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About the Author:
Alan Ware is a professor and tutor in Politics at Worcester College, Oxford University. He has authored seven previous books and edited six books. He has written numerous articles that have appeared in scholarly journals. His most recent book, The American Direct Primary, was published in 2002, and Political Parties and Party Systems was recently translated into Spanish. He serves on the Editorial Boards for Party Politics and Democratization.
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- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0691077630
- ISBN 13 9780691077635
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages294
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