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    Series series Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites
    Membership of political parties is diverse. Not everyone participates and those who do, do not participate in the same way.This book engages with the debate over the significance and future of political parties as membership organisations and presents the first broad comparative analysis of party membership and activism. It is based on membership surveys which have been administered, gathered and ... Read more

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    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is a reference work with an encyclopedic range, offering contemporary and systematic comparisons between the United States and 17 other economically advanced, stable liberal democracies, as well as some more global comparisons. It offers international data on as many aspects of social life as possible, from taxation to traffic accidents, homicide rates to health expenditure, and interest ... Read more

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    Political Parties and Elections presents a comparative analysis of the ways in which advanced industrial democracies seek to regulate the activities of political parties in electoral contests. Actual political practice suggests that parties are crucial actors in democratic elections, yet the nature and extent to which parties are regulated, or even recognized, as participants in the electoral ... Read more

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  • Powerscape

    Contemporary Australian politics

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  • Party Reform

    The Causes, Challenges, and Consequences of Organizational Change

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    Series series Comparative Politics
    Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party organization. The book provides a novel perspective in party scholarship and develops the concept of 'reform' as distinct from evolutionary and incremental processes of party change. As an outcome, reform is captured in deliberate and often very public changes to parties' organizational rules and processes. As a process, it offers a ... Read more

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