Organizing Political Parties: Representation, Participation, and Power (Comparative Politics)
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198758634 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Scarrow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of Houston,Paul D. Scarrow is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. He has published widely on political parties and comparative politics including The Presidentialization of Politics (OUP, edited with Paul Webb) and The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation (Routledge, edited with Nicholas Aylott, Elisabeth Carter, Robert Ladrech and Kurt Richard Luther).. Her scholarship and teaching focuses on representation and electoral institutions, including political party development, direct democracy, and po
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.. For more information visit: ecprnet. 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. Using a unique new data collection, the book's chapters test propositions about the reasons for variation and similarities across party organizations. 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. After exploring parties' organizational differences, the remaining chapters investigate the impact of these differences. They find more evidence of within-country similarity than of cross-national patterns based on party ideology. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for
Scarrow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of Houston,Paul D. Webb is Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK.Thomas Poguntke is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf and Director of the Dusseldorf Party Research