Allern (political science, U. of Oslo, Norway) offers a text on political parties, social movements, and interest groups (Scandinavian politics) for an academic and scholarly audience, as well as for
Both parties and interest groups matter to democracy. Historically, examples of close relationships between the two abound. But perhaps the best known - because it was supposedly the most intimate and
This book shows that the decline of parties as membership organizations does not necessarily mean that parties have decayed as channels for representation in democracies. Possible explanations can be
