June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1264 pages
60h 30m
English
CHAPTER 18 |
Political Party Organization |
JOSEPH A. SCHLESINGER |
Although political parties provided the basis for the study of organizations for such pioneers as Michels (1944, first published 1915), Ostrogorski (1902), and Weber (1946, first published 1919), parties today stand outside the main stream of organization theory. Many of the concepts derived from such early studies have been important in the development of later theories, notably the “iron law of oligarchy” and the related observation of the transformation of goals. But it is remarkable how little the study of party organization per se, as distinct from the study of such a related phenomenon as electoral behavior, has developed beyond its state at the turn of the century. ...
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