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Political Parties Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 54

By J. Jupp Copyright 1968
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

In this book the author proposes that parties are indispensable to modern politics and that the absence of parties suggests that a system is governed by a traditional elite which has yet to come to terms with the modern world. Without them it would be impossible to legitimize modern systems, to engage the loyalty and support of the citizens. The alternative to party rule is either aristocracy or... Read more

1. Party Systems  2. Party Functions  3. Structure of Parties  4. Parties in Modernised Societies  5. Mass Radicalism  6. Totalitarian Parties  7. Parties in the Developing Countries

Biography

J. Jupp