The Reshaping of West European Party Politics: Agenda-Setting and Party Competition in Comparative Perspective Christoffer Green-Pedersen

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ISBN-10: 0198842899
ISBN-13: 9780198842897

Author(s): Christoffer Green-Pedersen

Long gone are the times when class-based political parties with extensive membership dominated politics. Instead, party politics has become issue-based. Surprisingly few studies have focused on how the issue content of West European party politics has developed over the past decades. Empirically, Reshaping of West European Party Politics studies party politics in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK from 1980 and onwards. This book highlights the more complex party system agenda with the decline, but not disappearance, of macroeconomic issues as well as the rise in ‘new politics’ issues together with education and health care. Moreover, various ‘new politics’ issues such as immigration, the environment, and European integration have seen very different trajectories. To explain the development of the individual issues, this volume develops a new theoretical model labelled the ‘issue incentive model’ of party system attention. The aim of the model is to explain how much attention issues get throughout the party system, which is labelled ‘the party system agenda’.

Table contents:

1. What Has Happened to Party Politics in Western Europe? New Parties, New Issues, and New Conflicts

2. Bottom-Up or Top-Down? Theoretical Approaches to the Content of West European Party Politics

3. The Issue Incentive Model of Party System Attention

4. Data Sources for the Study of the Party System Agenda

5. The Development of the Party System Agenda in Western Europe: An Overview

6. The Dynamics of the Party System Agenda

7. Expansion from the Right: The Growth of Immigration on the Party System Agenda

8. An Ever-Sleeping Giant? European Integration on the Party System Agenda

9. Up and Down with the Environment

10. Attention to Education in the Post-Industrial Society

11. Everyone Really Loves Health Care

12. The Issue Content of West European Party Politics: The Central Role of Large, Mainstream Parties, but for How Long?

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