Organizing political parties : representation, participation, and power / edited by Susan E. Scarrow, Paul D. Webb, and Thomas Poguntke.

Political party organizations play large roles in democracie, yet their organizations differ widely, and their statutes change much more frequently than constitutions or electoral laws. How do these differences, and these frequent changes, affect the operation of democracy? This book seeks to answer...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
Other Authors: Poguntke, Thomas (Editor)
Webb, Paul, 1959 April 15- (Editor)
Scarrow, Susan E. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Political parties > United States.
Political parties.
United States.
Physical Description:xvi, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Investigating party organization: structures, resources, and representative strategies / Susan E. Scarrow and Paul D. Webb
  • Part 1. How parties organize
  • Assessing the strength of party organizational resources: a survey of the evidence from the political party database / Paul D. Webb and Dan Keith
  • Which face comes first? The ascendancy of the party in public office / Luciano Bardi, Enrico Calossi, and Eugenio Pizzimenti
  • The paradox of party funding: the limited impact of state subsidies on party membership / Ingrid van Biezen and Petr Kopecký
  • Still connecting with society? Political parties' formal links with social groups in the twenty-first century / Elin Haugsgjerd Allern and Tània Verge
  • Varieties of intra-party democracy: conceptualization and index construction / Benjamin von dem Berge and Thomas Poguntke
  • Patterns of intra-party democracy across the world / Niklas Bolin ... [et al.]
  • Part 2. The impact of party organization
  • Party finance and perceived party responsiveness / Marina Costa Lobo and Isabella Razzuoli
  • Candidate selection rules and democratic outcomes: the impact of parties on women's representation / Scott Pruysers ... [et al.]
  • Rules of engagement? Party membership costs, new forms of party affiliation, and partisan participation / Karina Kosiara-Pedersen, Susan E. Scarrow, and Emilie van Haute
  • The effects of manifesto politics on programmatic change / Annika Hennl and Simon Tobias Franzmann
  • Party organization and party unity / Conor Little and David M. Farrell
  • Conclusion: the study of party organization / Paul D. Webb, Thomas Poguntke, and Susan E. Scarrow
  • Afterword / Richard S. Katz.