Introduction / Richard S. Katz and William Crotty
PART 1: DEFINITION OF PARTY: What is a political party? / John Kenneth White
The nineteenth-century origins of modern political parties: he unwanted emergence of party-based politics / Susan E. Scarrow
Party origins and evolution in the United States / William Crotty
Party in democratic theory / Richard S. Katz
Party systems and party system types / Steven Wolinetz
Party system change / Peter Mair
PART 2: FUNCTIONS OF PARTY: Political parties as mechanisms of social choice / Marjorie Random Hershey
Recruitment / Pippa Norris
Candidate selection: methods and consequences / Reuven Y. Hazan and Gideon Rahat
Political parties in a changing campaign environment / David M. Farrell
On he cusp of change: party finance in the United States / John Green
Political parties, American campaigns, and effects on outcomes / Brian J. Brox and Daron R. Shaw
Parties and government: features of governing in representative democracies / Hans Keman
Parties into government: still many puzzles / Lieven De Winter and Patrick Dumont
Party patronage and party colonization of the state / Wolfgang C. Muller
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 transition / Zsolt Enyedi
Party, ethnicity, and democratization in Africa / Shaheen Mozaffar
PART 3: PARTY ORGANIZATION: Party models / Andre 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 4: 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 carrier of ideas / Francesca Vassallo and Clyde Wilcox
Identifying dimensions and locating parties: methodological and conceptual problems / Ian Budge
PART 5: PARTIES AND THE STATE: Party law / Wolfgang C. Muller and Ulrich Sieberer
Regulation of party finance / Karl-Heinz Nassmacher
Legal regulation and protection of American parties / Daniel H. Lowenstein
Party states and state politics / Paul G. Lewis
PART 6: PARTIES IN THE FUTURE: The international role of political parties / Kay Lawson
The European Union and political parties / Robert Ladrech
Party transformations: the United States and Western Europe / William Crotty
Parties in the media age / Holli A. Semetko
Cyber parties / Helen Margetts.
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