1st Edition
New Parties in Government In Power for the First Time
Chapter 1: Newly governing parties: a framework for analysis
Kris Deschouwer
Chapter 2: Moving from movement to government: the transformation of the Finnish Greens
Jan Sundberg (University of Helsinki) and Niklas Wilhelmsson (University of Helsinki
Chapter 3: Green parties between office and opposition in Sweden and New Zealand
Tim Bale (Sussex University), Torbjörn Bergman (Umea University) and Nicholas Aylott (Umea University)
Chapter 4: New parties between votes, office and policy
Nicole Bolleyer (European University Institute)
Chapter 5: Outsider parties in government: explaining change in Front National, Lega Nord and Alleanza Nazionale primary goals
Joan Hillebrand Neumiller (University of Minnesota)
Chapter 6: Newly governing parties in Italy: comparing the PDS-DS, Lega Nord and Forza
Piero Ignazi (Universita di Bologna) and Jonathan Hopkin (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Chapter 7: The short road to power, and the long way back: Newly governing parties in the Netherlands
Paul Lucardie (Universiteit Groningen), Alena Kantoriva (Universiteit Leiden) & Christian-Pierre Ghillebaert (Université de Lille)
Chapter 8: Include, exclude of co-opt: How political parties affect public opinion towards new minorities in Western Europe
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (Oxford University)
Chapter 9: Are the Greens still different. Comparing the participation in government of green parties in France, England and Sweden
Guillaume Duseigneur (Université de Lille)
Chapter 10: Independents in government: a case-study of Ireland
Liam Weeks (Trinity College Dublin)
Chapter 11: The electoral fate of newly governing parties
Jo Buelens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Airo Hino (Essex University)
Chapter 12: Conclusion
Kris Deschouwer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Biography
Kris Deschouwer is Professor of politics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
"Recommended. General readers and students of all levels." -- CHOICE, Jan 2009 Vol. 46 No. 05
