This book adopts an innovative conceptualization and analytical framework to the study of anti-system parties, and represents the first monograph ever published

In this rich and broad-ranging volume, Giovanni Sartori outlines what is now recognised to be the most comprehensive and authoritative approach to the classific

The book examines how religious institutional structures affect Islamist and Catholic political parties in the Middle East and Western Europe.

A group of specialists trace the origins and development of political parties, explore their impact on the system in which they exist, and raise new questions a

This book examines how democratic communities resolve dilemmas posed by anti-system parties or, more specifically, the question of why democracies take the grav