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The Study of Political Parties, 1906–2005: The View from the Journals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2006

HOWARD L. REITER
Affiliation:
The University of Connecticut

Abstract

A review of party-related articles in major political science journals over the past century reveals an increase in the incidence of such articles during the behavioral revolution and a decline in the proportion of studies that view parties holistically or in their organizational aspects and an increase in research on mass and legislative behavior. The essay calls for scholars of American parties to merge empirical findings with the generalist and normative concerns of an earlier age, to assess the recent advent of parties as ideologically focused instruments of policymaking.

Type
“THE EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL SCIENCE” ESSAYS
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© 2006 by the American Political Science Association

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