Handbook of Party Politics

Introduction – Richard S Katz and William Crotty PART ONE: DEFINITION OF PARTY What is a Political Party? – John Kenneth White The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Political Parties – Susan E Scarrow The Unwanted Emergence of Party-Based Politics Party Origins and Evolution in the United States – William Crotty Party in Democratic Theory – Richard S Katz Political Parties and Deliberative Democracy? – James Johnson Party Systems and Party System Types – Steven Wolinetz PART TWO: FUNCTIONS OF PARTY Political Parties as Mechanisms of Social Choice – Marjorie Randon Hershey Recruitment – Pippa Norris Candidate Selection – Reuven Y Hazan and Gideon Rahat Methods and Consequences Political Parties in a Changing Campaign Environment – David M Farrell On the Cusp of Change – John Green Party Finance in the United States Political Parties, American Campaigns, and Effects on Outcomes – Brian J Brox and Daron R. Shaw Parties and Government – Hans Keman Features of Governing in Representative Democracies Parties into Government – Lieven de Winter and Patrick Dumont Still Many Puzzles Party Patronage and Colonization of the State – Wolfgang C M[um]uller 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 Transitions – Zsolt Enyedi Party, Ethnicity and Democratization in Africa – Shaheen Mozaffar PART THREE: PARTY ORGANIZATION Party Models – Andr[ac]e 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 FOUR: 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 a Carrier of Ideas – Francesca Vassallo and Clyde Wilcox Identifying Dimensions and Locating Parties – Ian Budge Methodological and Conceptual Problems PART FIVE: PARTIES AND THE STATE Party Law – Wolfgang C M[um]uller and Ulrich Sieberer Regulation of Party Finance – Karl-Heinz Nassmacher Legal Regulation and Protection of American Parties – Daniel H Lowenstein Party States and State Parties – Paul G Lewis PART SIX: PARTIES IN THE FUTURE The International Role of Political Parties – Kay Lawson European Union and Political Parties – Robert Ladrech Party Transformations – William Crotty The United States and Western Europe Parties in the Media Age – Holli A Semetko Cyber Parties – Helen Margetts