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Party Elites in Divided Societiesby Kurt Richard Luther; Kris Deschouwer
Routledge 1999; US$ 140.00It offers a valuable and long overdue assessment of the role of political parties in the theory and practice of consociational demococracy. Combining valuable theoretical and comparative analyses with sensitive in-depth case studies. more...
Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisitedby Lauri Karvonen; Stein Kuhnle
Routledge 2000; US$ 170.00A timely study of Lipset and Rokkan's classic work, this book examines the significance of the original volume for the history of political sociology and assesses its theoretical and empirical relevance to the present day. more...
Estimating the Policy Position of Political Actorsby Michael Laver
Routledge 2001; US$ 140.00This book gives an up to date reference on the state of the art in this highly important methodological area, which is central both to theoretical models of party competition and to empirical accounts. more...
Anti-Political Establishment Partiesby Amir Abedi
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95Drawing on a wide variety of examples from countries across the world, this book provides a detailed comparative analysis of anti-political establishment parties. more...
Party Finance and Political Corruptionby Prof Robert Williams
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 128.00This book offers an in-depth examination of party finance and political corruption in a variety of political contexts. Its central focus is on the relationship between different forms of raising party finance and the consequent implications for improper influence over policy making and implementations. It presents both a general discussion of the issues and a set of case studies which illuminate the particular experiences of Britain, the United States, Russia, Italy, Germany and Southeast Asia. more...
How Political Parties Respond to Votersby Kay Lawson; Thomas Poguntke
Routledge 2004; US$ 42.92This book focuses specifically on the question of interest aggregation: do parties today perform that function? If so, how and if not, in what different ways do they seek to show themselves responsive to the electorate? more...
Political Campaigning in Referendumsby Claes H. de Vreese; Holli A. Semetko
Routledge 2004; US$ 41.95This is the first study to investigate the dynamics and effects of a referendum campaign on politicians, media, and citizens, this innovative volume will be of interest to students and researchers of political communication. more...
Political Parties in New Democraciesby Dr Ingrid van Biezen
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 140.00Ingrid van Biezen provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of party formation and organizational development in recently established democracies. She focuses on four democracies in Southern and East-Central Europe and addresses political parties from a cross-regional perspective. Featuring a wealth of new information on party organization, this book provides a valuable theoretical and empirical contribution to our understanding of political parties in both old and new democracies. more...
A Unified Theory of Party Competitionby James Adams; Samuel Merrill III; Bernard Grofman
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 30.00This book explains how parties and candidates locate themselves on the Left-Right ideological dimension and other issue dimensions. It offers a unified theoretical approach to voter behavior and party strategies that takes into account voter preferences, voter's partisan attachments, expected turnout, and the location of the political status quo. more...
Political Parties and Party Systemsby Moshe Maor
Routledge 1997; US$ 52.95The development of British parties set within a strong theoretical framework - a ground-breaking text for students which examines areas ignored by standard descriptive works. more...









