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What Happened to the British Party Model?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Leon D. Epstein
Leon D. Epstein*
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Abstract

Admired during much of this century, the British party model became especially attractive to American political scientists seeking responsible-party government in the early postwar years. After the mid-1960s, the model's appeal declined as did Britain's national status and the hopes for the democratic socialism often associated with the model. In the 1970s, the model itself seems to have worked in a way unlike that of prior decades. From this intellectual case history, a few broad inferences are drawn about the changing perspectives of political scientists.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 74 , Issue 1 , September 1980 , pp. 9 - 22
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1980

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