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Perspectives on Political Parties

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  • © 2002

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  1. Susan E Scarrow
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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Susan E Scarrow
      Pages 1-26

  3. Eighteenth Century Antecedents

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. The Patriot King and Parties, 1738

      • Henry Saint-John, Viscount Bolingbroke
      Pages 29-32

    3. Of Parties in General, 1742

      • David Hume
      Pages 33-36

    4. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, 1770

      • Edmund Burke
      Pages 37-43

    5. Farewell Address to Congress, 1796

      • George Washington
      Pages 45-48

  4. The Place of Parties in Healthy Political Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Remarks on Party, 1839

      • Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
      Pages 51-56

    3. Parties—the Office they Fulfill in a Republic, 1848

      • Frederick Grimke
      Pages 57-65

    4. The Party Organism, 1848

      • Gustav Struve
      Pages 67-69

    5. Elements of Society in France, 1849

      • François Guizot
      Pages 71-74

    6. What Is a Political Party?, 1869

      • Johan Caspar Bluntschli
      Pages 75-81

    7. Parties in the State, 1872

      • Robert von Mohl
      Pages 83-89

    8. The Place of Party in the Political System, 1891

      • Anson D Morse
      Pages 91-98

    9. Party Government, 1892

      • Charles Richardson
      Pages 99-102

    10. The Evils of Party, 1892

      • Nathan Cree
      Pages 103-106

    11. What Is a Party?, 1896

      • Anson D Morse
      Pages 107-118

  5. Parties and Legislatures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. On Opposition Parties in Germany and Elsewhere, 1836

      • Wilhelm Traugott Krug
      Pages 121-126
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About this book

Perspectives on Political Parties is a collection of primary documents that show the changing understandings of partisan politics during the nineteenth century, the first era in which parties played a central role in governing. The texts taken from British, American, German and French publication, speak to today's students and scholars of history and political science by showing the deep roots of still-current debates about representative democracy and mass politics. The reader is designed to fill a hole in contemporary teaching and scholarship by assembling hard to access sources that form the basis of modern debates about parties.

About the authors

SUSAN SCARROW is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston, Texas. She is author of Parties and their Members and editor of two volumes, Party Democracy and Direct Democracy and The Politics of Anti-Party Sentiment.

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