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Article: How Political Parties Work: Perpectives from Within.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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Once again, Kay Lawson has edited a book on comparative political parties with a punchy title and pithy contents. In her earlier and often-cited When Parties Fail (1988, with Peter Merkl), Lawson assembled a series of case studies describing organizations that replaced or supplemented traditional party organizations that failed. In How Political Parties Work, she offers a set of studies intended to "explore the internal dynamics of political parties with the intention of finding out how parties really work" (p. x).
Excluding Lawson's brief introduction and her substantial conclusion, the book contains 12 chapters neatly organized into four equal parts. The three ...