Political parties of the world

by Alan J. Day

"The quarter-century that has passed since publication of the first edition of Political Parties of the World in 1980 has seen an immense increase in the number and diversity of political parties worldwide - an expansion reflected in the ever-growing size of successive editions of the book. Since the "big bang" in party formation triggered by the collapse of single-party systems in the Soviet bloc and many developing countries in the early 1990s, there has been a continuing churn as new parties emerge, are tested, grow, fragment or perish, and many of the currently most significant parties...

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