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"This book explores the origins of Political Action Committees (PACs) in the mid-20th Century and their impact on the American party system. It argues that PACs were envisaged, from the outset, as tools for effecting ideological change in the two main parties, thus helping to fo…
"This book provides comprehensive insights into the parties and party systems of post-communist EU member states: Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia within the framework of each country's specific conditions and developments. It co…
"This book advances our partisan theory and presents a series of empirical tests of that theory's predictions (pitted against others). It considers why procedural cartels form, arguing that agenda power is naturally subject to cartelization in busy legislatures. It argues that t…
Scholars of the U.S. House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional organization serves members' non-partisan goals. On the other hand, partisan theories argue that th…
"This book highlights how new and established democracies differ from one another in the effects of their electoral rules"-- "Why Don't Electoral Rules Have the Same Effects in All Countries? In the early 1990s, Japan and Russia each adopted a very similar version of a "mixed-m…
"Provides a comprehensive empirical and theoretical analysis of the development of parties and party systems in Asia. The studies included advance a unique perspective in the literature by focusing on the concept of institutionalization and by analyzing parties in democratic set…
This book provides a comprehensive empirical and theoretical analysis of the development of parties and party systems in Asia. The studies included advance a unique perspective in the literature by focusing on the concept of institutionalization and by analyzing parties in democ…