Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties - 9781138522138

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Democracy and the Organization of Political PartiesVolume 2\nAuthor(s): Moisei Ostrogorski\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138522138, 978-1138522138\nSynopsis\nDemocracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis of political systems. As such, Ostrogorski's two-volume study of the party system in Britain and the United States exerted profound influence on the subsequent writings of Max Weber and Robert Michels. A descriptive analyst of the party system in these two countries, Ostrogorski developed concepts and methods that an-ticipated by nearly half a century those later used by American and British political scientists.\n\nThe core of Ostrogorski's analysis is a detailed history of the rise of and changes within the party system in Britain and the United States, the f.