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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828855803321

Autore

Abedi Amir <1966->

Titolo

Anti-political-establishment parties : a comparative analysis / / by Amir Abedi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-36368-0

1-134-36369-9

0-203-35512-1

1-280-07567-8

0-203-62506-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in extremism and democracy

Disciplina

324.2/1

Soggetti

Political parties

Opposition (Political science)

Government, Resistance to

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 (p. [177]-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Theoretical background and methodology; Definitional problems in the literature; Defining the anti-political establishment party; How to identify an anti-political establishment party; Theoretical background and prior research; Research hypotheses and methodology; Anti-political establishment parties in nineteen democracies; Austria; Belgium; Canada; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Luxembourg; The Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Sweden; Switzerland

United KingdomAverage combined APE party vote; Testing the hypotheses; A tradition of strong APE parties in the past; The economic condition of a country; Collusion between the main establishment parties; Party system features; Availability of voters; Testing multivariate regression models; Conclusion; Appendix A: List of establishment parties and anti-political establishment parties for 19 advanced industrial democracies (1945  99); Appendix B: List of elections used for the calculation of the combined anti-political



establishment party scores (hypotheses 5a and 5b: 1982 and 1993); Notes

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on a wide variety of examples from countries across the world, this book provides a detailed comparative analysis of anti-political establishment parties.