Political Parties and Party Systems:

Political Parties in Britainaddresses concepts pertaining to competitive parties: party institutionalization, organizational models, intra-party competition and the impact of intra- party conflicts on party behavior. It also looks at the concepts relating to competitive party systems such as multi-party electoral competition, the impact of regional integration on a party's behavior and issue orientation. Moshe Maor uses a comparative method in his analysis, illuminating a gap in the study of parties and showing that the tension between processes of change and processes of control results in continuous reinterpretation of parties' definitions of activities, motivations and interaction.

Moshe Maor is a Senior Lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Classifying party definitions	p. 1
A scheme of organisation for party definitions	p. 3
The format of the book	p. 14
Party system change	p. 17
The concept of cleavage	p. 19
Party system as a dependent variable: the development of the parts of the system	p. 22
Party system as an independent variable: the development of a system of interaction	p. 30
Continuity and change in the British party system	p. 38
Conclusion: party system stability?	p. 62
Party institutionalisation	p. 66
Comparative approaches of party institutionalisation	p. 67
The development of British political parties: the formative phase	p. 76
Conclusions	p. 89
Models of party organisation	p. 92
The cost and benefits of party membership	p. 95
Models of party organisation	p. 96
The British political parties as membership organisations	p. 113
Conclusions	p. 133
Cohesion and dissent	p. 135
Party cohesion	p. 136
Party factionalism	p. 147
Patterns of party cohesion and factionalism in post-1945 British parties	p. 151
Conclusions	p. 166
Intra-party conflicts and legislative bargaining	p. 168
The interplay between intra- and inter-party politics in multi-party systems	p. 169
The Lib-Lab Pact (1977-78): modes of conflict manifestation, resolution and legislative bargaining	p. 180
Conclusions	p. 193
Multi-party electoral competition	p. 195
Comparative approaches of inter-party competition	p. 195
Inter-party competition in Britain, 1945-95	p. 210
Conclusions	p. 233
Conclusions	p. 235
Comparative politics as a discipline	p. 239
Notes	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 254
Index	p. 273
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