Handbook of Party Politics [Hardcover]

The Handbook of Party Politics is the first book to comprehensively map the state-of-the-art in contemporary party politics scholarship. This major new work brings together the world's leading party theorists to provide an unrivalled resource on the role of parties in the pressing contemporary problems of institutional design and democratic governance today.

The Handbook of Party Politics is the first book to comprehensively map the state-of-the-art in contemporary party politics scholarship. This major new work brings together the world's leading party theorists to provide an unrivalled resource on the role of parties in the pressing contemporary problems of institutional design and democratic governance today.

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 l(