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

Richard Katz; Peter Mair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803979614 ISBN 13: 9780803979611

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1994

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 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.

About this title

About the Author

Richard S Katz is Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and is currently completing a major study on theories of democracy and electoral systems.

Peter Mair is Professor of Political Science and Comparative Politics at the University of Leiden, and is co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research.

Richard S Katz and Peter Mair are also co-editors of Party Organizations: A Data Handbook (Sage, 1992).

Contributors

Katz & Mair: How Parties Organize

Luciano Bardi Universita di Bologna

Lars Bille University of Copenhagen

Kris Deschouwer Vrije Universiteit Brussel

David Farrell University of Manchester

Ruud Koole University of Leiden

Leonardo Morlino Universita di Firenze

Wolfgang C Muller Universitat Wien

Jon Pierre Goteborgs Universitet

Thomas Poguntke Universitat Mannheim

Jan Sundberg University of Helsinki

Lars Svasand University of Bergen

Paul Webb Brunel University

Anders Widfeldt Goteborgs Universitet

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803979614
• ISBN 13: 9780803979611
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Katz Richard S.