Electoral Defeat and Party Change

Download or read book Electoral Defeat and Party Change written by Anna Pacześniak and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the factors determining the character, depth, scope and outcomes of changes made by political parties in the aftermath of electoral losses. It considers not only the objective aspects of party organisation and its features and structure, in explaining post-defeat party change, but also includes findings on the perceptions and interpretations of electoral results within political parties. Based on an extensive fieldwork, the authors propose a new analytical perspective to establish whether and under what conditions and circumstances an electoral defeat leads to a profound party makeover.