How parties organize : change and adaptation in party organizations in Western democracies

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How parties organize : change and adaptation in party organizations in Western democracies

edited by Richard S. Katz and Peter Mair

Sage, 1994

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Includes bibliographies and index

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This book takes a close look inside political parties, bringing together the findings of an international team of leading scholars. Building on a unique set of cross-national data on party organizations, the contributors set out to explain how parties organize, how they have changed and how they have adapted to the changing political and organizational circumstances in which they find themselves. The contributors are recognized authorities on the party systems of their countries, and have all been involved in gathering data on party membership, party finance and the internal structure of power. They add to the analysis of these original data an expert knowledge of the wider political patterns in their countries, and thus provide insight into the development of parties and party systems from the perspective of party organizations themselves. How Parties Organize offers the most systematic and comparable analysis of party organization in contemporary Europe and the United States.

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Party Organizations - Peter Mair From Civil Society to the State Party Organization as an Empty Vessel - Richard S Katz and Robin Kolodny Parties in American Politics The Development of Austrian Party Organizations in the Post-war Period - Wolfgang C M[um]uller The Decline of Consociationalism and the Reluctant Modernization of Belgian Mass Parties - Kris Deschouwer Party Organizational Change in Britain - Paul D Webb The Iron Law of Centralization? Denmark - Lars Bille The Decline of the Membership Party? Finland - Jan Sundberg Nationalized Parties, Professionalized Organizations Parties in a Legalistic Culture - Thomas Poguntke The Case of Germany Ireland - David M Farrell Centralization, Professionalization and Competitive Pressures Italy - Luciano Bardi and Leonardo Morlino Tracing the Roots of the Great Transformation The Vulnerability of the Modern Cadre Party in the Netherlands - Ruud A Koole Change and Adaptation in Norwegian Party Organizations - Lars Sv[a with a circle on the top]asand Party Organizations in Sweden - Jon Pierre and Anders Widfeldt Colossuses with Feet of Clay or Flexible Pillars of Government? Transnational Party Federations, European Parliamentary Party Groups and the Building of Europarties - Luciano Bardi

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