How Political Parties Work

KAY LAWSON is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. She is the author of several books, including Political Parties and Democracy in the United States (1968) and The Human Polity: An Introduction to Political Science (1984).

• Introduction by Kay Lawson How Internal Party Democracy Works--or Does Not "Basisdemokratie" and Political Realities: The German Green Party by Thomas Poguntke The Formal vs. Informal Rules of French Political Parties by Andrew Appleton Overcoming the Iron Law?: The Role of Policy Committees in the New Zealand Labor Party by Geoffrey Debnam How Leadership and Organization Interact IParty Organization as a Network of Relations: The Republican Party of Illinois by Mildred Schwartz Party Leadership in Theory and in Norway: An Entrepreneurial Perspective by Karen Strom Factionalism in the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan by David Morris How Internal Organization Affects External Performance Party Organization and Policy Making in a Changing Environment: The Indian National Congress by Subatra Mitra The Internal Dynamics of Local Party Sections in Belgium and Their External Effectiveness by Kris Deschouwer Interest Parties: The Thin Line between Groups and Parties in the Israeli Electoral Process by Yael Yishai How External Events Cause Changes in Internal Organization Political Parties in the New Czech and Slovak Federal Republic: Their New Legal Framework and Their Actual Activities by Josef Blahoz From Communist Party to "The Socialdemocracy of the Polish Republic" by Jerzy Wiater The Sources of Party Change: The Social Democratic Parties of Britain, France, Germany and Spain by Frank Wilson Conclusion Toward a Theory of How Political Parties Work by Kay Lawson Index