Altering Party Systems: Strategic Behavior and the Emergence of New Political Parties in Western Democracies. By Simon Hug. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 216p. $47.50
Altering Party Systems: Strategic Behavior and the Emergence of New Political Parties in Western Democracies. By Simon Hug. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 216p. $47.50
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改变政党制度：西方民主国家的战略行为和新政党的出现。
作者：
A. Kreppel
在成熟的民主国家，新政党何时以及为何决定组建并参加选举的问题并不新鲜，但在过去20年里，这些问题变得越来越重要。后物质主义和民族主义政党在西欧的兴起，使人们更加关注新政党的形成和选举成功所涉及的因果因素。在这本新书中，Simon Hug试图超越现有的研究，创造出能够预测这些现象何时发生的可推广的假设。它的创新之处在于它的方法，这是明确的博弈论，以及它的目标是走向一个真正普遍的新政党形成理论（并在某种程度上，成功）。虽然有一些理论和经验的弱点，在工作中，胡格作出了值得称赞的努力，他试图移动新党发展的分析超出了现有的大量描述性案例或阶级研究。
The questions of when and why new political parties decide to form and contest elections in established democracies are not new, but they have grown in importance over the last two decades. The rise of postmaterialist and nationalist parties across Western Europe has led to an increased focus on the causal factors involved in the formation and electoral success of new parties. In this new book, Simon Hug attempts to move beyond existing studies to create generalizable hypotheses capable of predicting when we should expect these phenomena to occur. It is innovative both in terms of its approach, which is explicitly game-theoretic, and in its goal to move toward a truly generalizable theory of new party formation (and, to some degree, success). Although there are some theoretical as well as empirical weaknesses in the work, Hug has made a laudable effort in his attempts to move the analysis of new party development beyond the bulk of existing descriptive case or class studies.