CONTENTS
Contributors = ⅴ
Preface and Acknowledgements = ⅵ
1 Party Organizations: From Civil Society to the State / Peter Mair = 1
2 Party Organization as an Empty Vessel: Parties in American Politics / Richard S. Katz ; Robin Kolodny = 23
3 The Development of Austrian Party Organizations in the Post-war Period / Wolfgang C. M u ·· ller = 51
4 The Decline of Consociationalism and the Reluctant Modernization of Belgian Mass Parties / Kris Deschouwer = 80
5 Party Organizational Change in Britain: The Iron Law of Centralization? / Paul D. Webb = 109
6 Denmark: The Decline of the Membership Party? / Lars Bille = 134
7 Finland: Nationalized Parties, Professionalized Organizations / Jan Sundberg = 158
8 Parties in a Legalistic Culture: The Case of Germany / Thomas Poguntke = 185
9 Ireland: Centralization, Professionalization and Competitive Pressures / David M. Farrell = 216
10 Italy: Tracing the Roots of the Great Transformation / Luciano Bardi ; Leonardo Morlino = 242
11 The Vulnerability of the Modern Cadre Party in the Netherlands / Ruud A. Koole = 278
12 Change and Adaptation in Norwegian Party Organizations / Lars Sv○sand = 304
13 Party Organizations in Sweden: Colossuses with Feet of Clay or Flexible Pillars of Government? / Jon Pierre ; Anders Widfeldt = 332
14 Transnational Party Federations, European Parliamentary Party Groups and the Building of Europarties / Luciano Bardi = 357
Index = 373
