Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society

Book Overview

Do political parties merely represent divisions in society? Until now, scholars and other observers have generally agreed that they do. But Building Blocs argues the reverse: that some political parties in fact shape divisions as they struggle to remake the social order. Drawing on the contributors' expertise in Indonesia, India, the United States, Canada, Egypt, and Turkey, this volume demonstrates further that the success and failure of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804794928
• ISBN13: 9780804794923
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"