Politics, Culture, and Sociability in the Basque Nationalist Party

"The book does not simply concern political ideas and ideology, but political organization as well. I believe that this has been a significant void in the research on Basque politics, and it is one that is even more pronounced in the study of politics from an institutional perspective, in the Basque case as well as more pervasively... Although organizations such as parties represent what might be called important meso-level realities, political scientists and sociologists have tended to focus on party systems and voting data at the expense of studying the organizations themselves...On the other hand, anthropologists have often been far too quick to jump directly from the local to the global.... Parties and other political organizations do continue to matter-a fact that makes their empirical study of ongoing importance and the relative lack of such studies perplexing.