Richard S Katz & William J Crotty 
Handbook of Party Politics [PDF ebook] 

′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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Introduction – Richard S Katz and William Crotty

PART ONE: DEFINITION OF PARTY

What is a Political Party? – John Kenneth White

The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Political Parties – Susan E Scarrow

The Unwanted Emergence of Party-Based Politics

Party Origins and Evolution in the United States – William Crotty

Party in Democratic Theory – Richard S Katz

Political Parties and Deliberative Democracy? – James Johnson

Party Systems and Party System Types – Steven Wolinetz

PART TWO: FUNCTIONS OF PARTY

Political Parties as Mechanisms of Social Choice – Marjorie Randon Hershey

Recruitment – Pippa Norris

Candidate Selection – Reuven Y Hazan and Gideon Rahat

Methods and Consequences

Political Parties in a Changing Campaign Environment – David M Farrell

On the Cusp of Change – John Green

Party Finance in the United States

Political Parties, American Campaigns, and Effects on Outcomes – Brian J Brox and Daron R. Shaw

Parties and Government – Hans Keman

Features of Governing in Representative Democracies

Parties into Government – Lieven de Winter and Patrick Dumont

Still Many Puzzles

Party Patronage and Colonization of the State – Wolfgang C M[um]uller

Exceptionalism in the United States – Nicol C Rae

Party System Institutionalization and Party System Theory After the Third Wave of Democratization – Scott Mainwaring and Mariano Torcal

Party Politics in Post-Communist Transitions – Zsolt Enyedi

Party, Ethnicity and Democratization in Africa – Shaheen Mozaffar

PART THREE: PARTY ORGANIZATION

Party Models – Andr[ac]e Krouwel

American Exceptionalism – Alan Ware

Movement Parties – Herbert Kitschelt

Political Parties as Multi-Level Organizations – Kris Deschouwer

Party Membership and Participation – Knut Heidar

Electoral Mobilization in the United States – James W Endersby, John R Petrocik and Daron R Shaw

Professional Staff in Political Parties – Paul Webb and Robin Kolodny

Party Crashers? The Relationship Between Political Consultants and Political Parties – David A Dulio

PART FOUR: PARTY AND SOCIETY

Party and Social Structure – Peter M Siavelis

Cleavages – Peter Mair

Political Parties and Social Capital, Political Parties or Social Capital – Eric M Uslaner

Political Parties and Social Structure in the Developing World – Vicky Randall

Political Parties and Other Organizations – Thomas Poguntke

Clientelism and Party Politics – Jonathan Hopkin

Party as a Carrier of Ideas – Francesca Vassallo and Clyde Wilcox

Identifying Dimensions and Locating Parties – Ian Budge

Methodological and Conceptual Problems

PART FIVE: PARTIES AND THE STATE

Party Law – Wolfgang C M[um]uller and Ulrich Sieberer

Regulation of Party Finance – Karl-Heinz Nassmacher

Legal Regulation and Protection of American Parties – Daniel H Lowenstein

Party States and State Parties – Paul G Lewis

PART SIX: PARTIES IN THE FUTURE

The International Role of Political Parties – Kay Lawson

European Union and Political Parties – Robert Ladrech

Party Transformations – William Crotty

The United States and Western Europe

Parties in the Media Age – Holli A Semetko

Cyber Parties – Helen Margetts