Political Extremism in Democracies: Combating Intolerance - Couverture rigide

Downs, William M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0230340792 ISBN 13 : 9780230340794

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

When political 'extremists' - organized into parties that compete openly and successfully in democratic elections - enter the conventional institutional arena, how do mainstream actors react? This book deals with understanding how democracies respond to party-based extremism and with what consequences.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

WILLIAM M. DOWNS Associate Dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, an Associate Professor of Political Science, and the co-director of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of Coalition Government, Subnational Style: Multiparty Politics in Europe's Regional Parliaments and has published research articles on political parties, electoral behavior, legislative institutions, and extremism in such journals as Parliamentary Affairs, West European Politics, Electoral Studies, Government & Opposition, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Contemporary Politics, and Perspectives on European Politics and Society. Downs has held a Fulbright research fellowship in Belgium, been a research fellow at Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and served as a visiting faculty member at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0230340792
• ISBN 13: 9780230340794
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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