This volume examines the arguments for, and evidence of, the growing mismatch between political parties and society at large.
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[Piero Ignazi] takes readers on afascinating journey in an attempt to pin down just why parties today are held in low esteem intoday's advanced democracies. ... This important new contribution to scholarship will be essential reading for political historians, for students of democracy and indeed for all thinking adults who watch with apprehension, the debasement of democratic government when faced with the failure of parties.