How parties organise

Abstract

Katz & Mair’s (1995) seminal article on how parties organize in the first issue of Party Politics was based upon data collected on West European and US parties in 1960-1990. It summed up current trends at the time and have over the course of the following three decades been supplemented both with new theoretical models and various types of party organizations. In this panel we welcome papers addressing how new types of parties organise, particularly in comparison to established parties and party types, and particularly with an emphasis on theoretically summing current trends.

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