The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations

by Gregory J. Kasza

Book Overview

The ability to organize millions of people for political purposes is a potent and relatively recent weapon in the struggle for power. Political scientists have studied two types of mass organization, the political party and the interest group. In this book Gregory Kasza examines a third type, which he calls the administered mass organization. AMOs are mass civilian bodies created by authoritarian regimes to implement public policy. Officials use them...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300062427
• ISBN13: 9780300062427
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"