TY - BOOK AU - Scarrow,Susan E. AU - Webb,Paul AU - Poguntke,Thomas TI - Organizing political parties: representation, participation, and power T2 - Comparative politics SN - 9780191818554 (ebook) : AV - JF2011 U1 - 324.2 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Political party organization N1 - This edition previously issued in print: 2017; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Political party organisations play large roles in democracies, yet their organisations differ widely, and their statutes change much more frequently than constitutions or electoral laws. How do these differences, and these frequent changes, affect the operation of democracy? This book answers these questions by presenting a comprehensive overview of the state of party organisation in 19 contemporary democracies UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758631.001.0001 ER -