Path: Return to Party Politics Home Page or to: List of issues

Contents of Volume 13 Issue 2, March 2007

Special Issue: Parties, Media and Voters: Challenges of Direct Democracy
Guest Editors: Russell J. Dalton and Ian McAllister

Russell J. Dalton and Ian McAllister,
"Political Parties and Political Development: A New Perspective," 139-140.
Joseph LaPalombara,
"Reflections on Political Parties and Political Development, Four Decades Later," 141-154.
Scott Mainwaring and Edurne Zoco,
"Political Sequences and the Stabilization of Interparty Competition: Electoral Volatility in Old and New Democracies," 155-178.
Russell J. Dalton and Steven Weldon,
"Partisanship and Party System Institutionalization," 179-196.
Ian McAllister and Stephen White,
"Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Post-communist Societies," 197-216.
Jeffrey A. Karp and Susan A. Banducci,
"Party Mobilization and Political Participation in New and Old Democracies," 217-234.
Ingrid van Biezen and Petr Kopecky,
"The State and the Parties: Public Funding, Public Regulation and Rent-Seeking in Contemporary Democracies," 235-254.
John Carey and Andrew Reynold,
"Parties and Accountable Government in New Democracies," 255-274.

Book Reviews
Democrats, Republicans, and the Politics of Women's Place, by Kira Sanbonmatsu.
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Party Politics 13 (March, 2007), 275-277, (Reviewed by Miki Caul Kittilson)
Political Parties in the Regions of Russia: Democracy Unclaimed, by Grigorii V. Golosov
Boulder, CO/London: Lynne Rienner, 2004,, by
Party Politics 13 (March, 2007), 277-279. (Reviewed by Derek S. Hutcheson)
Expressive Politics: Issue Strategies of Congressional Challengers, by Robert G. Boatright
Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2004.
Party Politics 13 (March, 2007), 279-280. (Reviewed by L. Sandy Maisel)
last updated February 2007