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Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access originally published online on January 20, 2009
Parliamentary Affairs 2009 62(2):189-195; doi:10.1093/pa/gsn050
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© The Author [2009]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government; all rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Lawrence Black

Department of History
Durham University
UK
lawrence.black@durham.ac.uk

Gidon Cohen

School of Government and International Affairs
Durham University
UK
gidon.cohen@durham.ac.uk

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Party activism has been seen as a, or even the, core issue for those interested in political science because it combines a number of features which enable it to shed light on participatory politics, arguably the central problem in the scientific study of politics. In particular, it looks at parties, perhaps the most important non-state institutions in democratic societies. Further, and in contrast to voting, the commitments involved are of relatively high intensity and show enough variation to enable a real insight into motivations.1 From another, rather different, perspective, starting from the mass of party members and moving outwards ‘the writing of party history can be seen as the writing of the general history of a country from a monographic point of view’; thus, the study of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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