Description - Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe by P. Nikiforos Diamandouros
In "Politics of Democratic Consolidation", Nikiforos Diamandouros, Richard Gunther and their co-authors showed how democratization unfolded in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, culminating in consolidated democratic regimes. This volume continues that analysis, posing the basic question: What kind of democratic politics emerged in those countries? It presents systematic analyses of the basic institutions of government and of the dynamics of electoral competition in the four countries (set in comparative context alongside several other democracies), as well as detailed studies of the evolution of the major parties, their electorates, their ideologies and their performances in government over the last 20 years of the 20th century. The authors reach two major conclusions. First, the new democracies' salient features are moderation, centripetalism, and the democratization of erstwhile antisystem parties on the Right and Left. Second, no single "Southern European model" has emerged; the systems differ from one another about as much as do the other established democracies of Europe. The contributors include: Thomas C. Bruneau, Arend Lijphart, Leonardo Morlino, Risa A. Brooks, Jose R.
Montero, Giacomo Sani, Paolo Segatti, Gianfranco Pasquino, and others.
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