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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819934803321

Autore

Allern Elin Haugsgjerd

Titolo

After the mass party : continuity and change in political parties and representation in Norway / / Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Knut Heidar, and Rune Karlsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-1655-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (133 p.)

Disciplina

324.2481

Soggetti

Political parties - Norway

Representative government and representation - Norway

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Political Parties and Representative Democracy; Chapter 2. Representation by Parties: An Analytical Framework; Chapter 3. Parties' Representative Capacity: What Do We Know?; Chapter 4. Norwegian Parties: Prospects for Representation; Chapter 5. Participation, Communication, and Influence; Chapter 6. Social Representation; Chapter 7. Policy Representation; Chapter 8. Representative Capacity after the Mass Party; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This book shows that the decline of parties as membership organizations does not necessarily mean that parties have decayed as channels for representation in democracies. Possible explanations can be found in party competition for votes and in other aspects of party organizations.