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Organizing Political Parties - Representation, Participation, and Power (Hardcover)
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Organizing Political Parties - Representation, Participation, and Power (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Politics
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Political party organizations play large roles in democracies, 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 these questions by presenting
a comprehensive overview of the state of party organization in
nineteen contemporary democracies. Using a unique new data
collection, the book's chapters test propositions about the reasons
for variation and similarities across party organizations. They
find more evidence of within-country similarity than of
cross-national patterns based on party ideology. After exploring
parties' organizational differences, the remaining chapters
investigate the impact of these differences. The volume considers a
wide range of theories about how party organization may affect
political life, including the impact of party rules on the
selection of female candidates, the links between party decision
processes and the stability of party programmes, the connection
between party finance sources and public trust in political
parties, and whether the strength of parties' extra-parliamentary
organization affects the behaviour of their elected legislators.
Collectively these chapters help to advance comparative studies of
elections and representation by inserting party institutions and
party agency more firmly into the centre of such studies.
Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and
students of political science that deals with contemporary
government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are
characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong
methodological rigour. The series is published in association with
the European Consortium for Political Research. For more
information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie
van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Universite libre de
Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the
Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, Chair
of the Department of Political Science, University of Houston.
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