Princeton Legacy Library When Parties Fail: Emerging Alternative Organizations Book 911 (Hardcover)

Throughout history parties have faltered and new groups have emerged but rarely has this process been so accelerated so widespread and so conducive to dramatic political change as in our present era. When Parties Fail explores alternative organizations in depth and comparatively. Among the organizations discussed are environmentalist groups such as the West German and Swedish Greens the Italian Radicals and local protest groups in Japan Switzerland and the United States. Also considered are new groups seeking attention in unresponsive party systems such as the Danish Gilstrup party the British SDP and American PACs; community parties and movements in Israel India Britain and the American South; and antiauthoritarian movements in Poland (Solidarity) Taiwan and Ghana. The case of France provides an example of major party survival. Three broadly comparative chapters consider the reasons for major party persistence in some nations and the causes and impact of their decline in others. The contributors to the book are David Apter Myron J. Aronoff Liang-shing Fan Frank B. Feigert Zvi Gitelman Ronald J. Herring Jon Kraus Kay Lawson Tom Mackie Peter H. Merkl Raffaela Y. Nanetti Angelo Panebianco Mogens N. Pedersen Geoffrey Pridham Peter Pulzer Richard Rose Donald Schoonmaker Frank Sorauf Robert C. A. Sorensen Evert Vedung Hanes Walton Jr. and Frank L. Wilson. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.