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Cartel Parties and Cartel Party Systems. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 200
The transformation of Western European Party Systems
was associated with the emergence of a new model of
party organization: the cartel party.
The cartel party differs from previous party models
because it is increasingly less an agent of society,
has interests on its own, depends on state subsidies
and struggles to preserve the conditions under whihc
it prospers by distorting electoral competition.
Through such a distortion the cartel of parties
resembles the behavior of oligopolistic firms. The
purpose of this book is to investigate whether and
to what extent patterns of inter-party competition
resemble the functioning of oligopolistic markets.
The results of our comparative analysis reveal that
there is a growing gap between voters' demands and
party system's political supply. In addition to
arguing the implications of these findings for the
theory of responsible party government, this books
shows that the growing gap between voters' demands
and party systems' supply creates the condition for
the rise of the parties of the New Extreme Right
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