Parties and Their Members: Organizing for Victory in Britain and Germany

ISBN-13: 9780198279181 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 296 str.

Susan E. Scarrow

Opis

Why would parties continue to care about membership enrollment in an age of television campaigning and direct mail fundraising? To answer this question, Susan Scarrow traces organizing strategies employed by British and German membership parties during the past half century. Using careful analysis of historical records and interviews with party officials, she shows that party organizers have reacted to technological and social developments by modifying their ideas about how members can help parties achieve their goals.

Recenzje

Scarrow's work represents a valuable addition to this 'new wave' of party membership research ... Scarrow's analytical framework is relevant, and the study sticks closely to it. The perspective is electural and rationalistic ... Scarrow's book constitutes a very valuable contribution. It offers new insights into the inner lives of four major European parties, makes an important addition to our knowledge of party organizations and it shows that many assumptions about developments in political parties should not be taken at face value.

O autorze

Susan E. Scarrow teaches political science at the University of Houston. She has been a visiting scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford, at Mannheim University, and at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University.