Long-term social and demographic changes-and the conflicts they create-continue to
transform British politics. In this accessible and authoritative book Sobolewska and Ford …

This article offers an overview of levels of party membership in European democracies at the
end of the first decade of the twenty‐first century and looks also at changes in these levels …

In contemporary political science, the extreme right phenomenon continues to attract
considerable academic attention. Among major political developments in established …

Party and Democracy questions why political parties today are held in such low estimation in
advanced democracies. The first part of the volume reviews theoretical motivations behind …

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 …

For decades, scholars have sought to understand why citizens join political parties and what
influence can be achieved through party membership. Whether we think of political parties …

Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no
formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically …

Political interest is a potentially important moderator of the relationship between digital
media use and traditional forms of political participation. We theorize that the interaction …

While the collapse of party membership in the last half‐century has consumed much of the
focus of party scholarship, the notion of membership itself is surprisingly under‐theorised …

This article analyses the factors that influence some Ghanaians to join a political party and
become active in the party. It seeks to illuminate the multi-dimensionality of the motivational …