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Title Political parties and interest groups : shaping democratic governance / edited by Clive S. Thomas
Published Boulder : L. Rienner Publishers, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 353 pages)
Contents Studying the political party-interest group relationship / Clive S. Thomas -- Britain : change and continuity within the new realities of British politics / Grant Jordan, William A. Maloney -- France : party-group relations in the shadow of the State / Andrew Appleton -- Sweden : weakening links between political parties and interest organizations / Anders Widfeldt -- The United States : the paradox of loose party-group ties in the context of American political development / Clive S. Thomas -- Germany : the continuing dominance of neocorporatism / Winand Gellner, John D. Robertson -- Italy : the erosion and demise of party dominance / John Constantelos -- Israel : the end of integration / Yael Yishai -- Japan : strong state, spectator democracy, and modified corporatism / Ronald J. Hrebenar -- Spain : changing party-group relations in a new democracy / Kerstin Hamann -- The Czech Republic : party dominance in a transitional system / Robert K. Evanson, Thomas M. Magstadt -- Poland : parties, movements, groups, and ambiguity / David Ost -- Argentina : parties and interests operating separately by design and in practice / Diane E. Johnson -- Mexico : the end of party corporatism? / Jonathan Rosenberg -- Toward a systematic understanding of party-group relations in liberal democracies / Clive S. Thomas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-334) and index
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Subject Political parties.
Pressure groups.
Democracy.
Comparative government.
Democracy
democracy.
comparative politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Comparative government
Democracy
Political parties
Pressure groups
Form Electronic book
Author Thomas, Clive S
ISBN 1588261883
9781588261885
Other Titles Political partie & interest groups