Suchergebnisse

This scholarly volume explores the most successful group of new political parties in Central and Eastern Europe: centrist anti-establishment parties (CAPs). Sarah Engler asks how these parties survive when newness is their only selling point and focuses on CAPs' electoral strategies after their first elections.

'Organizing Democratic Choice' offers a new, invigorating theory of how democracy actually works. It also presents a challenge to democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither political parties nor mass publics are up to the tasks that democracy assigns them.

'Electoral Malpractice' shows how this phenomenon might be reduced by means of a variety of strategies designed to raise the cost of electoral manipulation by increasing the ability of civil society and international actors to monitor and denounce it.