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- The Political Party
- Definition
- Difference between political parties and interest groups
- Origins of the modern party
- Why they emerged
- Where the first parties emerged
- Parties in non electoral regimes
- Political parties and the mobilization of the masses
- Parties as instruments to get out the vote
- Parties as instruments to mobilize people
- Parties as mobilizing masses against a regime
- Political parties and the recruitment and socialization of leaders
- Making a political career in Britain
- Comparison of Britain and the US
- Parties as the major avenue to political or economic advancement in one-party states
- Political parties as a source of political identity
- Important part of one’s identity
- Political parties as source of continuity and community
- Indiana as example of the ability of parties to establish stable lines of conflict
- Political parties as a channel of control
- The unforeseen effect of political parties as means to exert control
- The use of rewards and punishments
- Parties as means to keep apparatus of state under control of party leaders in one-party states
- Parties as means to control the masses
- Party organization
- The loose and informal structure of political parties in the US
- Parties as more formal organizations in other states
- The British Conservative Party as typical example of party organizational structure
- Party finance
- Sources of funding
- Box: Michels' "Iron Law of Oligarchy"
- Political Party Systems
- Definition of one-party system
- One-party system
- Dominant-party system
- Two-party system
- Multi-party system
- Power and Choice
- Examples
- The Communist Party of China
- Canada's Political Parties
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