TY - BOOK AU - Ware,Alan ED - European Consortium for Political Research. TI - The dynamics of two-party politics: party structures and the management of competition T2 - Comparative politics SN - 9780191721526 (ebook) : AV - JF2051 .W38 2009 U1 - 324.2 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Two-party systems KW - Comparative government N1 - Published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This book examines the role played by the parties themselves in two-party systems. It rejects the argument that the behaviour of the parties is determined largely by social forces or by the supposed logic of the electoral market. Instead, it shows that both structure and agency can matter UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199564439.001.0001 ER -