The two volumes of Moisei Ostrogorski's work, published in 1902 and long out of print in this century, are the fi rst serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic sufferage by a comparative analysis of political systems and had a profound eff ect on the subsequent writings of Max Weber and Robert Michels. Ostrogorski approached his analysis by a detailed history of the rise and changes in the party system in England and the United States, the first two nations to introduce mass suff rage. Although subsequent research has suggested the need to modify some of his historical...
The two volumes of Moisei Ostrogorski's work, published in 1902 and long out of print in this century, are the fi rst serious attempt to analyze the c...
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis of political systems. As such, Ostrogorski's two-volume study of the party system in Britain and the United States exerted profound influence on the subsequent writings of Max Weber and Robert Michels. A descriptive analyst of the party system in these two countries, Ostrogorski developed concepts and methods that an-ticipated by nearly half a century those later used by American and...
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the co...
