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In recent years, membership in established political parties has been shrinking, but at the same time members of some parties have received increased powers to help select candidates, leaders and party policies. These twin trends make it important to re-examine who is joining today's smaller parties. As parties shrink, do they attract a changed mixture of members, possibly with different political priorities? Using data from two sets of European surveys, our study investigates this question to study longitudinal change in party membership. The data show a growing gap between the age of party members and the general population. In most other respects, however, party members seem to be becoming more, not less, like their fellow citizens. This suggests that today's smaller but more powerful memberships still have the potential to help link their parties to a wider electoral base.

Regulating Political Parties provides a novel and valuable contribution to the existing literature on political parties by discussing the various dimensions of party law and regulation, in Europe and other regions of the world. By bringing together international experts from the disciplines of law and political science, this volume addresses from an interdisciplinary and comparative point of view what has long been a notable lacuna in the study of political parties.

Presentation of different party / program standpoints by political parties in the political scene during the mankind history has influenced the fact that the political parties have played an irreplaceable role in the establishment of democracy. In this article we will discuss the empirical validity of the views of Kosovar political parties in relation to the process of European integration, because party attitudes can often be transformed into state attitudes. In order to give an answer to this complex phenomenon, qualitative methods such as content and document analysis and interviews will be used in order to gather and analyze the data found. The findings of this article are very significant because, based on the analysis of party documents and the responses received from the interviews, we can conclude that the views of Kosovar political parties have not only prioritized European integration but also linked them with the idea of functioning of a modern state. In this regard, the importance of this research is related to the facts and a realistic situation to understand the complexity and the importance of the integration and transformation processes. In this context, the views of Kosovar political parties go beyond the themes of European integrations, they actually link this concept to a much wider dimension of social transformation, because it includes fundamental democratic values. In this form, by such standpoints, political parties transmit to Kosovo society an interethnic and religious awareness and tolerance.

'Organizing Democratic Choice' offers a new, invigorating theory of how democracy actually works. It also presents a challenge to democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither political parties nor mass publics are up to the tasks that democracy assigns them.

"This book represents the first comprehensive study of the evolution of parties and party systems in all nine democratic European states with less than one million inhabitants. As small political units have for long been considered to be most conducive to stable democracy, this volume analyses the actual role of political parties and partisan competition in the operation of modern democracy in those European microstates. Drawing on the crucial contribution of leading country experts in the field, it provides rich, systematic contextualized knowledge on these lesser-known cases. It further contributes to the mainstreaming of small state research in social science studies by comparing the experience of party politics in European microstates with that of larger countries in the same region of the world. This volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of party systems and political parties, elections and democracy, small states, European politics and more broadly of comparative politics"--

Introduction -- Party politics in European micro-states : one step towards mainstreaming / -- Patrick Dumont -- San Marino's increasing instability: politics in the oldest, smallest party -- democracy in the world / Fernando Casal Bértoa -- Party politics in the principality of Liechtenstein / Wouter Veedendaal -- Monaco's political system : national particularities and foreign influences / -- Félicitas Guillot -- The evolution of Andorra's Party System: from parties of 'Notables' to a -- predominant party system / Juli Minoves-Triquell -- A political party system in flux: Iceland's political culture and smallness / Baldur Thorhallsson and Ólafur Th. Harðarson -- Malta: party politics in a small island state / Marcelo Carammia and Roderick Pace -- Party politics in Luxembourg: stable, consensual and pragmatic / Patrick Dumont, Raphaël Kies and Dan Schmit -- Party politics in Montenegro: in the shadow of the statehood issue / Ivan Vuković and Nemanja Batrićević -- Nationalism, clientelism and anti-politics: party politics in the Republic of -- Cyprus / Direnç Kanol and George Pirishis -- Conclusion: Party politics in European micro-states: similar but different / Fernando Casal Bértoa.