Unloved but indispensable: Political parties in Europe
By
Paul McCarthy, Thibault Muzergues, Patrick Quirk
The experience of the past decade has shown that despite their unpopularity, political parties remain indispensable for the functioning of democracies in Europe—when they are present, plural, and organized, democracy is doing well. To prove this assertion, this paper will look at four telling examples in recent European history.
