TY - CHAP

T1 - Conclusion: Independent local lists in East and West European countries

AU - Reiser, Marion

N1 - International conference "Local Lists in Eastern and Western European countries - a comparative perspective". Halle-Wittenberg, 2007.04.

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - Local lists are present and successful in many European countries, partly already for decades. But generally, non-partisan groups have been regarded as a political anomaly and as relicts of an ‘old system’ of local self-government and it was expected that they would eventually perish (see the contributions of Boogers, Wörlund and Aars/Ringkjøb in this volume; Ueltzhöffer 1975). Therefore, research on non-partisan groups has hardly been conducted, neither within the countries nor was there comparative research between different European states. But during the last two decades, their presence and success have steadily increased and they were able to establish themselves also in countries which had been fully party-politicised before. Furthermore, local lists have been and still are important actors in the process of democratic consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe.

AB - Local lists are present and successful in many European countries, partly already for decades. But generally, non-partisan groups have been regarded as a political anomaly and as relicts of an ‘old system’ of local self-government and it was expected that they would eventually perish (see the contributions of Boogers, Wörlund and Aars/Ringkjøb in this volume; Ueltzhöffer 1975). Therefore, research on non-partisan groups has hardly been conducted, neither within the countries nor was there comparative research between different European states. But during the last two decades, their presence and success have steadily increased and they were able to establish themselves also in countries which had been fully party-politicised before. Furthermore, local lists have been and still are important actors in the process of democratic consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe.

KW - Politics

KW - Party System

KW - Local Politics

KW - Local Branch

KW - Local Election

KW - Political Parti

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/5e48a72a-fcf2-305a-b808-367d9721d905/

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-531-90923-3_15

DO - 10.1007/978-3-531-90923-3_15

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-3-531-15687-3

SN - 3-531-15687-X

T3 - Urban and regional research international

SP - 277

EP - 294

BT - Farewell to the Party Model?

A2 - Reiser, Marion

A2 - Holtmann, Everhard

PB - VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

CY - Wiesbaden

ER -