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Master Bibliography for Party Change Project (as of July 22, 2002) Originally compiled by Ranjana Mehra, Spring, 1992. Amended by Carla Prater, Spring, 1995 Amended by Robert Harmel and Sahar Shafqat, 11-3-95 Amended by Sahar Shafqat, Spring, Summer, 1996 Amended by Robert Harmel and Ewa Darski, 9-28-99 Amended by Melissa K. Bradley, 7-22-02 Contents General/Theoretical World Western Europe Denmark Germany United Kingdom United States General/Theoretical Duverger, Maurice. 1959. Political Parties: Their Organization and Activity in the Modern State. New York: Wiley. Harmel, Robert, and Rachel K. Gibson. 1996. "Parliamentary vs. Extraparliamentary Party Power: A Concept in Search of Measurement." Paper presented to the Workshop on Parliamentary Party Groups, European Consortium for Political Research, Oslo. Harmel, Robert, and Kenneth Janda. 1982. Parties and their Environments: Limits to Reform? New York: Longman. Lawson, Kay, 1980. Political Parties and Linkage: A Comparative Perspective. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Lawson, Kay. 1976. The Comparative Study of Political Parties. New York: St. Martin's Press. Lawson, Kay, and Peter H. Merkl, eds. 1988. When Parties Fail: Emerging Alternative organizations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Maisel, Louis, and Paul M. Sacks, eds. 1975. The Future of Political Parties. London: Sage. Panebianco, Angelo. 1988. Political Parties: Organization and Power. New York: Cambridge University Press. Rose, Richard. 1980. Do Parties Make a Difference? Chatham, NJ: Chatham House. Sartori, Giovanni. 1976. Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press. World Banks, Arthur S. 1986. Political Handbook of the World. New York: CSA Publications. Budge, Ian, and Hans Keman. 1990. Parties and Democracy: Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States. New York: Oxford University Press. Budge, Ian, David Robertson, and David Hearle, eds. 1987. Ideology, Strategy, and Party Change: Spatial Analyses of Post-War Election Programmes in Nineteen Democracies. New York: Cambridge University Press. Council on Foreign Relations. Various years (1927-19741). Political Handbook and Atlas of the World. New York: Simon & Schuster. Crewe, Ivor, and David Denver, eds. 1985. Electoral Change in Western Democracies: Patterns and Sources of Electoral Volatility. New York: St. Martin's Press. Day, Alan J., and Henry W. Degenhardt, eds. 1984. Political Parties of the World. 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: Gale. Delury, George, ed. 1983. World Encyclopaedia of Political Systems & Parties. Vols. I and II. New York: Facts on File. Duverger, Maurice. 1972. Party Politics and Pressure Groups: A Comparative Introduction. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. Furtak, Robert K. 1990. Elections in Socialist States. New York: St. Martin's Press. Harmel, Robert and Alexander Tan. 1996. Dominant Faction. (data book) Texas A&M University: Party Change Project. Hobday, Charles. 1986. Communist and Marxist Parties of the World. Harlow, Essex, U.K.: Longman. Hoffman, Mark S., ed. 1987. The World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York: Pharos Books. International Political Science Review. 1985. "New Political Parties." Special issue edited by Robert Harmel. 6(4). Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. 1979. Comparative Political Parties Data 1950-62.(Kenneth Janda,principal investigator.) Ann Arbor, MI: ICPSR. Lane, Jan-Erik, ed. 1989. Special issue of Journal of Theoretical Politics. 1(3). Janda, Kenneth. 1980. Political Parties. New York: Free Press. Keesing's Contem1porary Archives: Weekly Diary of World Events. Various years through 1986. London: Keesing's. Keesing's Contem1porary Archives: Weekly Diary of World Events. Various years through 1986. London: Keesing's. Keesing's Contemporary Archives: Weekly Diary of World Events. Various years through 1986. London: Keesing's. Leonard, Dick, and Richard Natkiel. 1986. World Atlas of Elections: Voting Patterns in 39 Democracies. London: The Economist. Levy, Felice. 1979. Obituaries on File. New York: Facts on File. Mackie, Thomas T. , and Richard Rose, eds. 1991. The International Almanac of Electoral History. 3rd ed. New York: Facts On File. Maolain, Ciaran 0. 1987. The Radical Right: A World Directory. Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, U.K.: Longman. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography. 1973. New York: McGraw-Hill. Neumann, Sigmund. 1956. Modern Political Parties: Approaches to Comparative Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Paxton, John, ed. 1988. The Statesman's Yearbook: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World: 1987-88. New York: St. Martin's Press. Taylor, Charles, and David A. Jodice. 1983. World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators. Vols. I and II. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. von Beyme, Klaus. 1985. Political Parties in Western Democracies. Aldershot, U.K.: Gower. Ware, Alan. 1985. The Breakdown of Democratic Party Oraanization, 1940-1980. New York: Clarendon. Ware, Alan, ed. 1987. Political Parties: Electoral Change and Structural Response. New York: Basil Blackwell. Who Was Who Volume VIII: A Companion to Who's Who. 1991. New York: St. Martin's Press. Who's Who in European Politics. 1990. Sevenoaks, Kent, U.K. : Bowker-Sauer. Williams, E.T., and C.S. Nichols. 1981. The Dictionary of National Biography 1961-1970. London: Oxford University Press. Western Europe Bartolini, Stefano, and Peter Mair. 1990. Identity, Competition, and Electoral Availability: The Stabilisation of European Electorates 1885-1985. New York:Cambridge University Press. Belloni, Frank, and Dennis Beller, eds. 1978. Faction Politics:Political Parties and Factionalism in Comparative Perspective. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Daalder, Hans, and Peter Mair, eds. 1983. Western European Party Systems: Continuity and Change. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. Dahl, Robert A., ed. 1966. Political 0pposition in Western Democracies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Epstein, Leon D. 1967. Political Parties in Western Democracies. New York: Praeger. Henig, Stanley, ed. 1979. Political Parties in the European Community. London: Allen and Unwin. Irving, R.E.M. 1979. The Christian Democratic Parties of Western Europe. London: Allen and Unwin. Kirchner, Emil Joseph. 1988. Liberal Parties in Western Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press. Kolinsky, Martin, and William E. Paterson, eds. 1976. Social and Political Movements in Western Europe. London: Croom, Heim. Layton-Henry, Zig. 1982. Conservative Politics in Western Europe. London: Macmillan. Lipset, Seymour Martin, and Stein Rokkan, eds. 1967. Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross- National Perspective. New York: Free Press, Lodge, Juliet, ed. 1990. The 1989 Election of the European Parliament. New York: St. Martin's Press. Mair, Peter, ed. 1990. The West European Party System. New York: Oxford University Press. Mair, Peter, and Gordon Smith, eds. 1990. Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe. London: Frank Cass. McHale, Vincent E., ed. 1983. Political Parties of Europe. Vols.I and II. Westport, CT: Greenwood. Merkl, Peter H., ed. 1980. Western European Party Systems. New York: Free Press. Morgan, Roger and Stefano Silvestri, eds. 1982. Moderates and Conservatives in Western Europe: Political Parties, the European Community and the Atlantic Alliance. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Muller-Rommel, Ferdinand. 1990. New Politics in Western Europe. Boulder, CO: Westview. Muller-Rommel, Ferdinand, and Geoffrey Pridham, eds. 1991. Small Parties in Western-Europe: Comlparative and National Perspectives. New York: Sage Publications. Paterson, William E., and Alastair H. Thomas, eds. 1977. Social Democratic Parties in Western Europe. New York: St. Martin's Press. Schapsmeier, E.L., and F.H. Schapsmeier. 1981. Political Parties and Civic Action Groups. Westport, CT: Greenwood. Stammen, Theo. 1979. Political Parties in Europe. London: John Martin. Wilson, Frank L. 1989. "The Sources of Party Change: Change in Social Democratic Parties in Britain, France, Germany, and Spain." Paper presented at the Workshop on Elections and Parties, Committee on Political sociology, International Political Science Association/ International Sociological Association, Paris. Wolinetz, Steven B., ed. 1988. Parties and Party Systems in Liberal Democracies. New York: Routledge. Denmark Andersen, Jorgen Goul. 1986. "Electoral Trends in Denmark in the 1980's." Scandinavian Political Studies 9:157-174. Bair, Frank E. 1991. Countries of the World and Their Leaders. Detroit, MI: Gale. Banks, Arthur S. 1988. Political Handbook of the World: 1988. Binghamton, NY: CSA Publications, State University of New York. Berglund, Sten, and Ulf Lindstrom. 1978. The Scandinavian Party System. Studentlitteratur, Lund Beyme, Klaus von. 1985. Political Parties in Western Democracies. Aldershot, U.K.: Gower. Bille, Lars. February, 1993. Personal Communication with Robert Harmel. Copenhagen, Denmark. Bille, Lars. August, 1994. Personal Communication with Robert Harmel. Copenhagen, Denmark. Bille, Lars. 1997. ALeadership Change and Party Change: The Case of the Danish Social Democratic Party, 1960-1995.@ Party Politics Journal, 3(3;July): 379-90. Budge, Ian, David Robertson, and Derek Urwin, eds. 1987. Ideology, Strategy, and Party Change: Spatial Analyses of Post-War Election Programmes in 19 Democracies. New York: Cambridge University Press. Burton, Jack. 1990. Denmark: A Bridge to the North. International Management 45: 70-72+. Castles, Francis G. 1978. The
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