How Parties Organize: Change and Adaptation in Party Organizations in Western Democracies

The empirical analysis of party organizations and party organizational change has long remained one of the least developed fields of study in comparative politics. Despite much discussion about the supposed 'crisis of party' and the 'decline of party' in Western democracies, we still know remarkably little about what goes on inside political parties.

Now, for the first time, this book takes a close look inside political parties, bringing together the findings of an international team of lead...