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AbstractIn recent years many scholars have diagnosed a crisis of party politics. This article considers recent changes in the UK and Europe that appear to challenge this idea. Exploring Colin Crouch's notion of 'post‐democratic' party politics and considering his diagnosis of shifts in parties' agenda setting, organisation and communication, the article considers evidence of post‐democratic politics and the possibility for future renewal.

Arase reviews 'Japan's Postwar Party Politics' by Masaru Kohno.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Rebuilding Canadian Party Politics -- 1 Party Politics at Century's End -- 2 The Party Question in Canada -- 3 Challenging the Consensus: Two New Parties -- 4 Struggling to Survive: Three Old Parties -- 5 Representing Interests -- 6 Remaking Party Democracy -- 7 Paying for Parties -- 8 On the Ground: The Local Campaign -- 9 In the Air: National Campaign Communication -- 10 Rebuilding the Canadian Party System -- Appendix: Formal Interview Schedule -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- One: Introduction -- Two: Questioning Conventional Approaches -- Three: The Politics of Electoral Reform, 1945-1947 -- Four: Coalition Building under the Pre-1955 Multiparty System -- Five: The Creation of the Liberal Democratic Party in 1955 -- Six: The Evolution of the LDP's Intraparty Politics -- Seven: Post-1955 Changes in the Japanese Party System -- Eight: The Political Change in 1993 -- Nine: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Subject Index

In a 2021 Special Issue in European Political Science, Anika Gauja and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen review the sub-field of party politics research. In doing so, they argue party politics scholarship reflects the broader development of the political science discipline, illustrating the evolving relationship between politics researchers and the organisations they study. In this reply, we argue that the party politics sub-field reflects the wider discipline in another crucial respect—it continues to marginalise gender politics scholarship. We demonstrate that a gendered lens fundamentally transforms key questions in the field around what party politics scholars study, and how and why they conduct their research, with relevant consequences for whose work is included. In failing to engage with this scholarship, "mainstream" party politics scholars are (re)producing unequal power relations and hierarchies within the discipline, while also depriving themselves of the capacity to address fully key questions of representation, democracy, continuity and change.