Handbook of Party Politics

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ISBN: 9780761943143 | 0761943145
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/26/2006

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The Handbook of Party Politics is the first book to comprehensively map the state-of-the-art in contemporary party politics scholarship. This major new work brings together the world's leading party theorists to provide an unrivalled resource on the role of parties in the pressing contemporary problems of institutional design and democratic governance today.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Definition of Party	p. 5
What is a political party?	p. 5
The nineteenth-century origins of modern political parties: The unwanted emergence of party-based politics	p. 16
Party origins and evolution in the United States	p. 25
Party in democratic theory	p. 34
Political parties and deliberative democracy?	p. 47
Party systems and party system types	p. 51
Party system change	p. 63
Functions of Party	p. 75
Political parties as mechanisms of social choice	p. 75
Recruitment	p. 89
Candidate selection: Methods and consequences	p. 109
Political parties in a changing campaign environment	p. 122
On the cusp of change: Party finance in the United States	p. 134
Political parties, American campaigns, and effects on outcomes	p. 146
Parties and government: Features of governing in representative democracies	p. 160
Parties into government: Still many puzzles	p. 175
Party patronage and party colonization of the state	p. 189
Exceptionalism in the United States	p. 196
Party system institutionalization and party system theory after the third wave of democratization	p. 204
Party politics in post-communist transition	p. 228
Party, ethnicity and democratization in Africa	p. 239
Party Organization	p. 249
Party models	p. 249
American exceptionalism	p. 270
Movement parties	p. 278
Political parties as multi-level organizations	p. 291
Party membership and participation	p. 301
Electoral mobilization in the United States	p. 316
Professional staff in political parties	p. 337
Party crashers? The relationship between political consultants and political parties	p. 348
Party and Society	p. 359
Party and social structure	p. 359
Cleavages	p. 371
Political parties and social capital, political parties or social captial	p. 376
Political parties and social structure in the developing world	p. 387
Political parties and other organizations	p. 396
Clientelism and party politics	p. 406
Party as a carrier of ideas	p. 413
Identifying dimensions and locating parties: Methodological and conceptual problems	p. 422
Parties and the State	p. 435
Party law	p. 435
Regulation of party finance	p. 446
Legal regulation and protection of American parties	p. 456
Party states and state parties	p. 471
Parties in the Future	p. 483
The international role of political parties	p. 483
The European Union and political parties	p. 492
Party transformations: The United States and Western Europe	p. 499
Parties in the media age	p. 515
Cyber parties	p. 528
Index	p. 536
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