Parties Without Partisans

Party Politics '...this is a very good book. Serious students of political parties, and indeed anyone interested in the challenges facing modern electoral democracies, will want to read it ... The editors deserve much credit for producing that rarest of academic products - a genuinely integrated collection in which the whole is more than its (very substantial) parts.'

West European Politics '. . . this volume represents a milestone in the debate about the role of political parties in advanced industrial democracies at the beginning of the twenty-first century.'

Professor Smith, Emeritus Professor of Government, London School of Economics and Politics 'This collection of studies is a welcome addition to party literature. The editors have brought together a range of experts who provide sophisticated yet accessible accounts of different spheres of party roles - their electoral connections, parties as political organizations, and their part in Government. Parties without Partisans sets a marker against which future studies are likely to be judged.'

Introduction: Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg, Unthinkable Deomocracy: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Part I Parties in the Electorate: Russell J. Dalton, The Decline of Party Identification; Russell J. Dalton, Ian McAllister, and Martin P. Wattenberg, The Consequences of Partisan Dealignment; Martin P. Wattenberg, The Decline of Party Mobilization. Part II Parties as Political Organizations: Susan S. Scarrow, Parties without Members? Party Organizations in a Changing Electoral Environment; David M. Farrell and Paul Webb, Political Parties as Campaign Organizations; Susan S. Scarrow, Paul Webb, and David M. Farrell, From Social Integration to Electoral Contestination, The Changing Distribution of Power within Political Parties. Part III Parties in Government: Shaun Bowler, Parties in Legislature - Two Competing Explanations; Kaare Strom, Parties at the Core of Government; Miki L. Caul and Mark M. Gray, From Platform Declarations to Policy Outcomes, Changing Party Profiles and Partisan Influence over Policy; Michael F. Thies, On the Primacy of Party in Government - Why Legislative Parties Can Survive Party Decline in the Electorate. Conclusion: Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg - Partisan Change and the Democratic Process.