by S. Scarrow (Editor)
Perspectives on Political Parties is a collection of primary documents that show the changing understandings of partisan politics during the nineteenth century, the first era in which parties played a central role in governing. The texts taken from British, American, German and French publication, speak to today's students and scholars of history and political science by showing the deep roots of still-current debates about representative democracy and mass politics. The reader is designed to fill a hole in contemporary teaching and scholarship by assembling hard to access sources that form the basis of modern debates about parties.
Author Biography
SUSAN SCARROW is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston, Texas. She is author of Parties and their Members and editor of two volumes, Party Democracy and Direct Democracy and The Politics of Anti-Party Sentiment.