Building Party Systems in Developing Democracies

by Allen Hicken

Book Overview

This book addresses the question of why a party system with a modest number of nationally oriented political parties emerges in some democracies but not others. The number of parties and nationalization are the product of coordination between voters, candidates, and party leaders within local electoral districts and coordination among candidates and elites across districts. Candidates and voters can do and do coordinate locally in response to electoral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107437105
• ISBN13: 9781107437104
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"