Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally
published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze
the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis
of political systems. As such, Ostrogorski's two-volume study of
the party system in Britain and the United States exerted profound
influence on the subsequent writings of Max Weber and Robert
Michels. A descriptive analyst of the party system in these two
countries, Ostrogorski developed concepts and methods that
an-ticipated by nearly half a century those later used by American
and British political scientists. The core of Ostrogorski's
analysis is a detailed history of the rise of and changes within
the party system in Britain and the United States, the first
nations to introduce mass suffrage. While the emphasis of Democracy
and the Organization of Political Parties is on the similar trends
in the political parties of both countries, Ostrogorski also showed
concern with the sources of differences between them. Seeking to
explain these variations, he suggested a number of fundamental
hypotheses about these two societies that con-tinue to be of
relevance today. Lipset's substantial introduction places
Os-trogorski's work within its historical context and assesses
Ostrogorski's im-pact and influence on both his contemporaries and
on later political scien-tists.
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