TY - BOOK AU - Lawson, Kay TI - Political parties and democracy SN - 9780313083495 U1 - 324.2 PY - 2010/// CY - California PB - Praeger KW - Political parties N1 - Volume 2: Europe -- Political parties and democracy: three stages of power / Kay Lawson -- Introduction to political parties and democracy: Europe / Kay Lawson -- Part 1: Western Europe -- Chapter 1: Political parties and democracy in France: an ambiguous relationship / Nicolas Sauger -- Chapter 2: Development of a multiparty system in Germany: a threat to democratic stability? / Juergen Falter -- Chapter 3: Three ages of party politics in postwar Italy / Piero Ignazi -- Chapter 4: Spanish parties and democracy: weak party-society linkage and intense party-state symbiosis / Luis Ramiro and Laura Morales -- Chapter 5: New questions for parties and democracy in the United Kingdom: participation, choice, and control / Paul Webb -- Part 2: Scandinavia -- Chapter 6: Massive stability of the Danish multiparty system: a pyrrhic victory? / Christian Elmelund-Præstekær, Jørgen Elklit, and Ulrik Kjaer -- Chapter 7: Parties as vehicles of democracy in Norway: still working after all these years? / Elin Haugsgjerd Allern -- Part 3: Eastern Europe -- Chapter 8: Political parties and democracy: the Polish case / Hieronim Kubiak -- Chapter 9: Relationship between parties and democracy in Hungary / Attila Ágh -- Chapter 10: Czech party system and democracy: a quest for stability and functionality / Miroslav Novak. ER -