TY - BOOK ID - 8286137 TI - Party governance and party democracy : Festschrift to Kaare Strm AU - Strm, Kaare. AU - Muller, Wolfgang C. AU - Narud, Hanne Marthe. PY - 2013 SN - 1489994513 1461465877 1461465885 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Political parties KW - Political party rules KW - Political Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Political Science Theory KW - Comparative government. KW - Democracy. KW - Political parties. KW - Political planning. KW - Policy sciences. KW - Policy-making KW - Policymaking KW - Public policy management KW - Planning in politics KW - Public policy KW - Parties, Political KW - Party systems, Political KW - Political party systems KW - Self-government KW - Comparative political systems KW - Comparative politics KW - Government, Comparative KW - Political systems, Comparative KW - Political science. KW - Political theory. KW - Comparative politics. KW - Political Science and International Relations. KW - Comparative Politics. KW - Political Theory. KW - Political Science. KW - Planning KW - Policy sciences KW - Politics, Practical KW - Public administration KW - Political science KW - Divided government KW - Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) KW - Political conventions KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8286137 AB - Given the centrality of political parties in modern democracies, most research on these systems either directly address their internal functioning and activities or question their critical role. Political science has moved from describing institutions to the thorough analysis of behavior within these institutions and the interactions between them. The inevitable consequences of the maturing and institutionalization of the discipline of political science in many countries include the forming of sub-fields and specialized research communities. At the same time the number of democracies has vastly increased since the 1980s and although not each attempt at democratization was eventually successful, more heterogeneous systems with some form of party competition exist than ever before. As a consequence, the literature addressing the large issues of party democracy spreads over many research fields and has become difficult to master for individual students of party democracy and party governance. The present volume sets out to review the behavior and larger role of political parties in modern democracies. In so doing the book takes its departure from the idea that the main contribution of political parties to the working of democracy is their role as vehicles of political competition in systems of government. Consequently the focus is not merely in the internal functioning of political parties, but rather their behavior the electoral, legislative, and governmental arenas. Thus several chapters address how political parties perform within the existing institutional frameworks. One more chapter looks at the role of political parties in building and adapting these institutions. Finally, two chapters explicitly address the party contributions to democracy in established and new democracies, respectively. ER -