?This thoughtful and wide-ranging review of parties and party research contains contributions from many of the foremost party scholars and is a must for all library shelves?

- Richard Luther, Keele University

?The study of political parties has never been livelier and this genuinely international Handbook – theoretically rich, comparatively informed, and focused on important questions – defines the field. This volume is both an indispensable summary of what we know and the starting point for future research?

- R K Carty, University of British Columbia

?Political parties are ubiquitous, but their forms and functions vary greatly from regime to regime, from continent to continent, and from era to era. The Handbook of Party Politics captures this variation and richness in impressive ways. The editors have assembled an excellent team, and the scope of the volume is vast and intriguing?

- Kaare Strom, University of California, San Diego

Political parties are indispensable to democracy and a central subject of research and study in political science around the world. This major new handbook is the first to comprehensively map the state-of-the-art in contemporary party politics scholarship.

The Handbook is designed to:

-provide an invaluable survey of the major theories and approaches in this dynamic area of study and research

-give students and researchers a concise ?road map? to the core literatures in all the sub-fields of party related theorizing and research

-identify the theories, approaches and topics that define the current ?cutting edge? of the field.

The Handbook is comparative in overall approach but also addresses some topics to be addressed in nationally or regionally specific ways. The resulting collaboration has brought 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.

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Information

Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Year

2006

ISBN

9781446206812

Edition

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Politics

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Definition of party
Chapter 1 - What is a political party?
Chapter 2 - The nineteenth-century origins of modern political parties: The unwanted emergence of party-based politics
Chapter 3 - Party origins and evolution in the United States
Chapter 4 - Party in democratic theory
Chapter 5 - Political parties and deliberative democracy?
Chapter 6 - Party systems and party system types
Chapter 7 - Party system change
Part II: Functions of party
Chapter 8 - Political parties as mechanisms of social choice
Chapter 9 - Recruitment
Chapter 10 - Candidate selection: Methods and consequences
Chapter 11 - Political parties in a changing campaign environment
Chapter 12 - On the cusp of change: Party finance in the United States
Chapter 13 - Political parties, American campaigns, and effects on outcomes
Chapter 14 - Parties and government: Features of governing in representative democracies
Chapter 15 - Parties government: Still many puzzles
Chapter 16 - Party patronage and party colonization of the state
Chapter 17 - Exceptionalism in the United States
Chapter 18 - Party system institutionalization and party systems theory after the third wave of democratization
Chapter 19 - Party politics in post-communist transition
Chapter 20 - Party, ethnicity and democratization in Africa
Part III: Party organization
Chapter 21 - Party models
Chapter 22 - African Exceptionalism
Chapter 23 - Movement parties
Chapter 24 - Political parties as multi-level organizations
Chapter 25 - Party membership and participation
Chapter 26 - Electoral mobilization in the United States
Chapter 27 - Professional staff in political parties
Chapter 28 - Party crashers? The relationship between political consultants and political parties
Part IV: Party and society
Chapter 29 - Party and social structure
Chapter 30 - Clevages
Chapter 31 - Political parties and social capital, political parties or social capital
Chapter 32 - Political parties and social structure in the developing world
Chapter 33 - Political parties and other organizations
Chapter 34 - Clientelism and party politics
Chapter 35 - Party as a carrier of ideas
Chapter 36 - Identifying dimensions and locating parties: Methodological and conceptual problems
Part V: Parties and the state
Chapter 37 - Party law
Chapter 38 - Regulation of party finance
Chapter 39 - Legal regulation and protection of American parties
Chapter 40 - Party states and state parties
Part VI: Parties in the future
Chapter 41 - The international role of political parties
Chapter 42 - The European Union and political parties
Chapter 43 - Party transformations: The United States and Western Europe
Chapter 44 - Parties in the media age
Chapter 45 - Cyber parties
Index