The Reshaping Of West European Party Politics

Download or read book The Reshaping of West European Party Politics written by Christoffer Green-Pedersen and published by Comparative Politics. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reshaping of West European Party Politics offers an empirical study of party politics in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK from 1980 and onwards. This book highlights the more complex party system agenda with the decline, but not disappearance, of macroeconomic issues as well as the rise in 'new politics' issues together with education and health care. Moreover, various 'new politics' issues such as immigration, the environment,and European integration have seen very different trajectories.To explain the development of the individual issues, this volume develops a new theoretical model labelled the'issue incentive model' of party system attention. The aim of the model is to explain how much attention issues get throughout the party system, which is labelled 'the party system agenda'.