Formerly CIP. Uk Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- Defining `political party' -- The three faces of party organisations -- The structure of parties -- The role of parties in democratic states -- The crisis of parties -- Outline of the book -- 2. Party Systems -- The importance of understanding party systems -- Early approaches to party systems -- Party system typologies -- The effective number of parties -- Explaining party system variation -- Which party system is best? -- Conclusion -- 3. Theories of Party Development -- The `internal' and `external' origins of parties -- An alternative view of the emergence of political parties -- Understanding party types -- Cadre parties to mass parties -- Challenging the mass party model: the catch-all party -- Organisational consequences of the catch-all party: the electoral-professional party model -- The cartel party -- Conclusion: Beyond the cartel -- beyond party types? -- 4. Ideology -- On ideology and party politics. Contents note continued: Political cleavages -- Party families -- Ideology in contemporary European party politics -- Party ideology beyond Europe -- United States -- India -- Africa -- Conclusion -- 5. Party Members, Activists and Supporters -- Defining party member, activist and supporter -- The rise (and fall?) of party members -- Why members? -- Party membership incentives: supply -- Leadership incentives: demand -- The costs of a membership organisation -- Explaining and reversing decline -- The effects of membership decline -- Conclusion -- 6. Candidate Selection -- The importance of candidate selection -- Selecting candidates -- The political system -- National legislation -- The candidate selection process: impact of different methods -- Territorial (de- ) centralisation and in/exclusiveness of the selectorate -- Supply and demand -- Supply -- Demand -- Conclusion -- 7. Policy Making -- Who should be involved? -- The normative argument against intra-party democracy. Contents note continued: The normative argument for intra-party democracy -- Pragmatic arguments against intra-party democracy -- Pragmatic argument for intra-party democracy -- Who can be involved in policy making? -- Who wants to be involved in policy making? -- Who are involved in policy making? -- Conclusion -- 8. Campaigning -- How campaigning has changed -- First era -- Second Era -- Third Era -- The limits of change -- Drivers of change -- Social changes -- Technological change -- Party-specific issues -- Impact of changes -- Financing -- Conclusion -- 9. Government -- Deciding to aim for government office -- Getting into government -- coalitions -- Factors impacting on coalition formation -- Portfolio allocation -- Conclusion -- 10. The Internationalisation of Party Politics -- Party Internationals -- The First, Second, Fourth and Socialist Internationals -- The Liberal International -- International Democratic Union -- Communist International (Comintern) -- Europarties. Contents note continued: The Development of Europarties -- Limits to the development of Europarties -- Parties and globalization -- The internationalisation of campaign consultancy -- Conclusion -- 11. The Future of Party Politics -- Future direction in the study of political parties -- Are parties in crisis?
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