2008
DOI: 10.1080/01402380701835033
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The Challenge to Party Government

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“…The size of the working class population and the degree of secularism are the product of broad structural changes in society that are unlikely to be reversed. Changes produced by the diminishing size of cleavage groups will signal lasting declines in electoral relevance, which in turn will likely bring lasting changes to electoral competition and party strategies (Mair, 2008).…”
Section: Assessing Electoral Relevancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The size of the working class population and the degree of secularism are the product of broad structural changes in society that are unlikely to be reversed. Changes produced by the diminishing size of cleavage groups will signal lasting declines in electoral relevance, which in turn will likely bring lasting changes to electoral competition and party strategies (Mair, 2008).…”
Section: Assessing Electoral Relevancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…2012). Men det avspeglas också i väljarnas allt svagare identifiering med ett parti och i en nedgång i partiernas förmåga att ställa upp långsiktiga mål (Lindvall & Rothstein 2006;Mair 2008). Partipolitiken har blivit mer reaktiv och tar till sig idéer och lösningar som ofta formuleras på andra arenor än partierna.…”
Section: Stefan Svallforsunclassified
“…As we suggested above, the traditional systems of party government at the national level are themselves no longer shining examples of effective and legitimate systems of representative government, and are often characterized by their own democratic deficits (Mair 2008a). Moreover, the conditions that initially fostered the effective fusion of the functions of representation and of control of the government by parties at the national level have also changed.…”
Section: Party Government At the European Levelmentioning
confidence: 99%