The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans
Editors: Passarelli, Gianluca (Ed.)
Free Preview- Applies the concept of presidentialisation to the party politics of Western Balkan countries
- Unravels the relations among presidentialisation, political systems and leadership
- Combines intrinsic intra-party variables with general variables of political regimes
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- About this book
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This book examines the process of presidentialisation of political parties in the Western Balkans. The Western Balkan countries deserve to be analysed in a comparative perspective due to their distinctive features in terms of processes of democratization, forms of government and institutional assets, the presence of social cleavages (religious, linguistic, ethnic), and, of course, the nature of political parties which differs from other European cases, especially in terms of origins, organization and structure. However, Western Balkan political parties do show certain similarities with other West European cases where power is centralised and held by the parties’ leadership. The book ultimately attempts to test whether and to what extent the influence of institutional variables affects the level of presidentialisation of political parties, also considering the parties’ organization features.
- About the authors
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Gianluca Passarelli is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political Sciences, Sapienza University, Roma, Italy. His main research interests are presidential politics, political parties, electoral systems, elections and electoral behaviour. Among his recent publications are articles appearing in Party Politics, Political Geography, Representation, French Politics, and Political Studies Review.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans
Pages 1-22
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The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Croatia: Institutional Change Matters
Pages 23-47
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The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Serbia: Influence of Direct Elected President
Pages 49-71
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The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Mitigated Presidentialism
Pages 73-96
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The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Macedonia: The Role of Ethnics
Pages 97-117
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans
- Editors
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- Gianluca Passarelli
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-97352-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-97352-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-97351-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-07341-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 217
- Number of Illustrations
- 15 b/w illustrations
- Topics