PARTIES AND THEIR MEMBERS by Susan E. Scarrow ( 9780198279181 )

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Title:

PARTIES AND THEIR MEMBERS
ORGANIZING FOR VICTORY IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY

By:

Susan E. Scarrow

Format:

Hardback

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0198279183

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9780198279181

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

21 March, 1996

Series:

Comparative Politics

Pages:

290

Description:

This book investigates changing relations between parties and their members in four major British and German political parties. By calling attention to the varied benefits members can provide for parties even in a mass-media age, this account helps to explain why some party leaders have been willing to back recent expansions of intra-party democracy.

Synopsis:

Why would parties continue to care about membership enrollment in an age of television campaigning and direct-mail fundraising? To answer this question, Parties and their Members 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, the author shows that party organizers have reacted to technological and social developments by modifying their ideas about how members can help parties achieve their goals.

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line figures, tables

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Imprint:

Clarendon Press

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