04414cam a22003375a 4500 016682615 Uk 20161025155840.0 140303s2014 enka frb 001 0 eng d GBB437631 bnb 016682615 Uk 0230237800 (paperback) 9780230237803 (paperback) StDuBDS eng StDuBDS EG-ScBUE ukblcatcopy 22 324.2 PET Pettitt, Robin T.‏ 41622 Contemporary party politics / Robin T. Pettitt. London : Palgrave Macmillan / macmillan Publishers Limited, 2014. xii, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Index : p. 221-222. Bibliography : p. 208-220. 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? A 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 Political parties. BUEsh Democracy. BUEsh 3166 BUEsh BUSBOL October2016 ddc 22 324.2 PET 22865 22837 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2016-10-25 Purchase 392.00 3634 2 9 324.2 PET 000034245 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2018-10-15 490.00 BB