CHAPTER ELEVEN: POLITICAL PARTIES

a. What is, and what should be, the role of the ordinary member in a modern political party?

b. Why is party membership declining and what are the implications for the political role of parties?

c. How and why does the organization and ideology of Western Europe parties differ from their counterparts in North America?

Hague & Harrop, 2010 edn, ch.11

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