Handbook of Party Politics [electronic resource] / edited by Richard S. Katz and William Crotty.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Richard S. Katz and William Crotty -- PART 1: DEFINITION OF PARTY: What is a political party? / John Kenneth White -- The nineteenth-century origins of modern political parties: he unwanted emergence of party-based politics / Susan E. Scarrow -- Party origins and evolution in the United States / William Crotty -- Party in democratic theory / Richard S. Katz -- Party systems and party system types / Steven Wolinetz -- Party system change / Peter Mair -- PART 2: FUNCTIONS OF PARTY: Political parties as mechanisms of social choice / Marjorie Random Hershey -- Recruitment / Pippa Norris -- Candidate selection: methods and consequences / Reuven Y. Hazan and Gideon Rahat -- Political parties in a changing campaign environment / David M. Farrell -- On he cusp of change: party finance in the United States / John Green -- Political parties, American campaigns, and effects on outcomes / Brian J. Brox and Daron R. Shaw -- Parties and government: features of governing in representative democracies / Hans Keman -- Parties into government: still many puzzles / Lieven De Winter and Patrick Dumont -- Party patronage and party colonization of the state / Wolfgang C. Muller -- 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 transition / Zsolt Enyedi -- Party, ethnicity, and democratization in Africa / Shaheen Mozaffar -- PART 3: PARTY ORGANIZATION: Party models / Andre 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 4: 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 carrier of ideas / Francesca Vassallo and Clyde Wilcox -- Identifying dimensions and locating parties: methodological and conceptual problems / Ian Budge -- PART 5: PARTIES AND THE STATE: Party law / Wolfgang C. Muller and Ulrich Sieberer -- Regulation of party finance / Karl-Heinz Nassmacher -- Legal regulation and protection of American parties / Daniel H. Lowenstein -- Party states and state politics / Paul G. Lewis -- PART 6: PARTIES IN THE FUTURE: The international role of political parties / Kay Lawson -- The European Union and political parties / Robert Ladrech -- Party transformations: the United States and Western Europe / William Crotty -- Parties in the media age / Holli A. Semetko -- Cyber parties / Helen Margetts.

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