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Description:The ‘’classical’’ scholars who wrote about political parties — Ostrogorsky, Michels,Weber, Duverger — conceived of them as being above all organizations, arguing that in order to understand and explain their activities and transformations, it was necessary to analyze their organizational core. This perspective was abandoned by later scholars, but in this innovative book, Angelo Panebianco takes it up again, and, with the benefit of recent advances in organizational studies, extends it to offer new insights into the functioning of political parties.Making use of several different social scientific disciplinary traditions, Panebiancodevelops an original framework for the analysis of political parties. He formulates awide-ranging theory of the ‘‘organizational development” of parties, paying particular attention to their internal power conflicts, on the basis of which he elaborates a general interpretive scheme for the analysis of party change. He also presents new hypotheses on the relations between parties and their environment, on bureaucratization, and on the role of ideology. He tests these theories through an historical comparative analysis of European political parties, re-examining their history in the light of his theoretical concerns.As a fresh treatment of a central issue in political science, this distinctive andsignificant contribution to the theory of political parties will appeal widely to political scientists and sociologists, while its extensive and balanced discussion of other works on the subject, albeit in the context of its own argument, make it also a valuable resource for students.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Political Parties: Organization and Power. To get started finding Political Parties: Organization and Power, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The ‘’classical’’ scholars who wrote about political parties — Ostrogorsky, Michels,Weber, Duverger — conceived of them as being above all organizations, arguing that in order to understand and explain their activities and transformations, it was necessary to analyze their organizational core. This perspective was abandoned by later scholars, but in this innovative book, Angelo Panebianco takes it up again, and, with the benefit of recent advances in organizational studies, extends it to offer new insights into the functioning of political parties.Making use of several different social scientific disciplinary traditions, Panebiancodevelops an original framework for the analysis of political parties. He formulates awide-ranging theory of the ‘‘organizational development” of parties, paying particular attention to their internal power conflicts, on the basis of which he elaborates a general interpretive scheme for the analysis of party change. He also presents new hypotheses on the relations between parties and their environment, on bureaucratization, and on the role of ideology. He tests these theories through an historical comparative analysis of European political parties, re-examining their history in the light of his theoretical concerns.As a fresh treatment of a central issue in political science, this distinctive andsignificant contribution to the theory of political parties will appeal widely to political scientists and sociologists, while its extensive and balanced discussion of other works on the subject, albeit in the context of its own argument, make it also a valuable resource for students.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Political Parties: Organization and Power. To get started finding Political Parties: Organization and Power, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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