Party and Parish Pump: Electoral Politics in Ireland - Couverture rigide

R.K. Carty (author)

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0889201056 ISBN 13 : 9780889201057

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1981

Synopsis

My attention was drawn to Ireland by footnotes, writes the author. Over and over again the literature of comparative politics noted simply except in Ireland.... The question that puzzled me was, Why should this be so?

Professor Cartys answers to the question appear in this detailed study that sheds new light on the question of establishing democratic politics after a war of independence, on the impact of electoral laws on party competition, on the social bases of political competition, and on the way political machines work in modern democracies. As a case study the book also analyzes the peculiarly conservative syndrome into which Irish politics has fallen. Carty concludes that political institutions and the activities of politicians make a considerable difference to the organization and conduct of public life.

The book will interest students of comparative politics, history, and political sociology, as well as those concerned with the shape and direction of society and politics in contemporary Ireland.

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À propos de l'auteur

R.K. Carty teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He has studied at Oxford and holds a Ph.D. from Queen's University, Kingston. He is co-editor of Entering the Eighties: Canada in Crisis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0889201056
• ISBN 13: 9780889201057
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 170
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible