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Contemporary party politics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pettitt, Robin T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Democracy.
Political parties.
Partei.
Organisation.
Parteiensystem.
Parteipolitik.
Demokratie.
Internationaler Vergleich.
Table of 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?.