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100	1		_aPettitt, Robin T.‏ _941622
245	1	0	_aContemporary party politics / _cRobin T. Pettitt.
260			_aLondon : _bPalgrave Macmillan / macmillan Publishers Limited, _c2014.
300			_axii, 222 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIndex : p. 221-222.
504			_aBibliography : p. 208-220.
505			_a 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 -- 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?
520			_aA systematic and comprehensive introduction to contemporary party politics in democratic states and evaluation of whether, and to what extent, parties are - as is often claimed - in crisis or decline
650		0	_aPolitical parties. _2BUEsh
650		7	_aDemocracy. _2BUEsh _93166
651			_2BUEsh
653			_bBUSBOL _cOctober2016
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