Confounding sources of variance in the macro-analysis of electoral data
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 19, Heft 4
ISSN: 0304-4130
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In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 19, Heft 4
ISSN: 0304-4130
In: Journal of Interamerican studies and world affairs, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 153-174
ISSN: 2162-2736
Many authors (for example, Ostrogorski, 1964; Michels, 1962: 175 ff.; Weber, 1946: 101 ff.; Duverger, 1967: 182-197; Schlesinger, 1965: 766-767, 1967: 268; Seligman, 1967: 315; Stinchombe, 1965: 153; McKenzie, 1963: 581-591; Epstein, 1967: 167-233, 289-314) have noted that contemporary political parties are predominantly electoral organizations engaged in public office-seeking and dominated by elected officials. While American parties have always been characterized by office-seeking, this phenomenon was not intially characteristic of socialist, labor, or communist parties which endeavored to create a working-class subculture and to whom public office-seeking was only one of several activities. In many such parties, however, office-seeking has come to dominate or even replace a previously wide range of activities.
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 550
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: American political science review, Band 91, Heft 4, S. 995
ISSN: 0003-0554