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Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Political entrepreneurs and their parties: conceptual and typological issues -- Chapter 3 The party as a spin-off from a business empire -- Chapter 4 Two tycoons and their one-man shows -- Chapter 5 Entrepreneurial parties without firms and without members -- Chapter 6 How to build a party organisation without financial capital -- Chapter 7 Collapse or survival: the organisational resilience of entrepreneurial parties.

1. Southern European democracies on the road to consolidation : a comparative assessment of the role of political parties / Geoffrey Pridham -- 2. Party elites and democratic consolidation : cross-national comparison of southern European experience / Gianfranco Pasquino -- 3. The consolidation of democracy in post-war Italy / David Hine -- 4. The role of the Italian Communist Party in the consolidation of parliamentary democracy in Italy / Donal Sassoon -- 5. Portugal : an open verdict / Ken Gladdish -- 6. Regime consolidation in Spain : party, state, and society / Richard Gillespie -- 7. From polarization to pluralism : regional-nationalist parties in the process of democratic consolidation in post-Franco Spain / Ulrike Liebert -- 8. Political parties and democratic consolidation in Greece / Kevin Featherstone -- 9. To be or not to be within the European Community : the party debate and democratic consolidation in Greece / Susannah Verney.

Faith of our fathers -- The spoils of war and the fruits of peace -- Liberalism and conservatism : the American condition and how we got here -- The changing character of the liberal-conservative equation -- The sources of security and national greatness -- Come home, America

The American political climate has become increasingly polarized since the 1970s. Analysis by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal shows that voting patterns within Congress have become increasingly divided along party lines, with fewer and fewer moderates. A major cause of polarization appears to be the geographic sorting of voters: Communities and regions of the country have become more politically and ideologically homogeneous, resulting in constituencies in congressional districts and in states that are more strongly conservative or liberal. Whatever its causes, the effects of increased polarization on political discourse and policymaking are clear: There is less room for deliberation between the two parties, and public policy decisionmaking is increasingly driven more by ideology than by objective analysis of which policies, programs, practices, and processes will produce the desired outcomes at the lowest cost. The mission of the RAND Corporation is to provide just this sort of objective analysis, and today's heated political environment presents a serious challenge to this mission. To help make sure that RAND's objective, nonpartisan research influences the policy debate, RAND must work to identify potentially controversial findings and take steps to ensure that they are not misinterpreted or distorted

New ed. rev. by James Albert Woodburn. ; viii, 600 p.

The multi-faceted problem of local government finance has attracted increasing attention in the new millennium. The reasons for the renewed interest in this thorny question are comparatively straightforward. In the first place, for the past two decades all public sector institutions have been profoundly affected by the twin revolutions simultaneously sweeping the world – the globalization of the international economy and the information revolution wrought by the computer age – and local government is no exception. Not only have these inexorable forces had dramatic implications for the structure of government as a whole, and relationships between the different tiers of government, but also for service provision and public finance, including local public finance. Secondly, substantially heightened demands on local government, together with limited access to adequate funding, have seen the genesis of a deepening crisis in the financial sustainability of local government entities.