How Parties Organize: Change and Adaptation in Party Organizations in Western Democracies

✍ Scribed by Richard S Katz, Peter Mair

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 385
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 p

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