Transformation of Party Organization in Europe

For decades, political science has been trapped in a game of labeling, endlessly searching for the next dominant "e;model"e; of party organization. This book argues that this fixation on static ideal types is a theoretical dead end, as it obscures the messy, non-linear reality of how parties actually change.Moving beyond the "e;teleological trap"e; of evolutionary models, this book proposes a new ...