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Books and Monographs (Underlined titles available on Internet)


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2021

A Tale of Two Parties: Living Amondst Democrats and Republicans Since 1952
(New York Routledge, 2021)
2016
American Parties in Context: Comparative and Historical Analysis
(New York: Routledge, 2016) (Robert Harmel and Matthew Giebert are first-named authors) Only summary is available here.

2013

The Social Bases of Political Parties: Democrats and Republicans, 1952-2012 and 2032. (Links to a full-text PDF of the Appli iBook.).
Roseville, MN: Kenneth Janda 2013. This is an iBook for Apple iPads. (Also see the web page.)

2011

Party Systems and Country Governance. (Links to a full-text PDF. Also see the Student Project Page)
Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2011. (With Jiin-Young Kwak)

2005

"Adopting Party Law,"
in Political Parties and Democracy in Theoretical and Practical Perspectives (Washington, DC: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 2005). Reprinted in John Hardin Young (ed.), International Election Principles: Democracy and the Rule of Law (Chicago, IL: American Bar Foundation, 2009), pp. 81-134.

1982

Political Parties and Their Environment: Limits to Reform?
New York: Longman, 1982. (With Robert Harmel).

1980

Political Parties: A Cross-National Survey
New York: The Free Press, 1980. This 1,019 page volume consists of two parts. All 173 pages of Part I, "Variables,Codes, and Summary Statistics," are available online. Some additional information from Part II, "Information on Political Parties," is also online.

1979

Comparative Political Parties Data, 1950-1962.
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Inter-University consortium for Political and Social Research, 1979.

1978

Comparing Political Parties.
American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1978 (with Robert Harmel).

1970

A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Political Parties,
Monograph in Sage Professional Papers in Comparative Politics, 01-002. Edited by Harry Eckstein and Ted Gurr. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1970. Pp. 75-126.

1968

ICPP Codes and Indexing Manual.
Evanston: Northwestern University, International Comparative Political Parties, 1968.
ICPP Technical Manual.
Evanston: Northwestern University, International Comparative Political Parties Project, 1968.
Articles and Book Chapters (Underlined titles available on Internet)

2020

"Contemporary trends in party organization: Revisiting intra-party democracy"
in Party Politics, 26 (2020), 3-8, with Gabriela Borz.

2018

"Manifestos and the ''two faces'' of parties: Addressing both members and voters with one document"
in Party Politics, 24 (May, 2018), 278-288, Robert Hrmel, Alexander C. Tan, and Jason Matthew Smith.

2013

"Innovations in Information Technology in American Party Politics Since 1960,"
in English in the Russian-language Proceedings of the Conference on "Political Design in Social Communications," Moscow, October 31-November 1, 2013,pp. 141-173; an identical paper was presented at World Social Science Forum Montreal, Canada, October 12-15, 2013, published in Guy Lachapelle and Philippe J. Maarek (eds), Political Parties in the Digital Age: The Impact of New Technologies in Politics (Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. 9-41.
"Do Party Systems Matter?
Harvard International Review, 34 (Spring, 2013), 63-67.
"Now Playing on an iPad Near You: The Social Bases of Political Parties,"
Vox Pop, 32 (Summer, 2013), 1-3.

2012

"Governance in Democracies and Non-Democracies,"
in Ann Marie Bissessar (ed.), Governance: Is It for Everyone? (Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2012), pp. 141-159.

2011

"Party Systems and Country Governance,"
Vox POP, 28 (Summer, 2011), pp. 1-2.
"Party Law,"
in The Encyclopedia of Political Science, Volume 4, (Washington, DC: CQPress, 2011), 1190-1191.
"Interest Aggregation and Articulation,"
in The Encyclopedia of Political Science, Volume 3, (Washington, DC: CQPress, 2011), 798-799.

2010

"Party System Effects on Country governance: A Cross-National Analysis,"
Korean Political Science Review, 45 (No. 3, 2010), 7-41. (with Jin-Young Kwak)
"Measuring Party System: Revisiting Competiveness and Volatility in Parliamentary Party Systems,"
.The Korean Journal of Area Studies, 28 (August, 2010), 21-49 (with Jin-Young Kwak)
"Country Governance, Rule of Law, and Party Systems,"
in the Russian language journal, Political Science, (No. 4, 2010), 113-142. Russia language version

2009

"Party Politics and POP,"
in Party Politics, (May, 2009), 259-263.

2008

"Founding POP: The Origins of Our APSA Section,"
VOX POP, 26 (Spring, 2008), pp. 1 and 3.
"Assessing Laws That Ban Party Switching, Defecting or Floor-Crossing in National Parliaments,"
n Democracy Unit, Terugroeprect (Recall) (Parimaribo, Suriname: University of Suriname, 2008), pp. 83-113.

2005

"Financing Election Campaigns in the United States,"
in Election Management 2005 (Seoul, Korea: National Electoral Commission, Republic of Korea, 2005), pp. 195-213.

2001

"Political Parties and Elections,"
Political Science Syllabus Collection, Robin Kolodny (ed.), Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 2001.

1998

"Effects of Party Organization on Performance during the 'Golden Age' of Parties,"
Political Studies, XLVI (1998), 611-63--with Tyler Colman.
"Famine to Feast: New Books on Comparative Party Politics,"
International Politics, 35 (June, 1998), 233-240.

1995

"Performance, Leadership, Factions, and Party Change: An Empirical Analysis,"
West European Politics, 18 (January, 1995), 1-33. (With Robert Harmel, Uk Heo, and Alexander Tan)
"Changes in Party Identity: Evidence from Party Manifestos,"
Party Politics, 1 (April, 1995), 171-196.

1994

"An Integrated Theory of Party Goals and Party Change,"
in Journal of Theoretical Politics, 6 (July, 1994), 259-287. (With Robert Harmel) Reprinted in Steven B. Wolinetz, (Ed.), Political Parties (Hampshire, U.K., Dartmouth Publishing, forthcoming).

1993

"Comparative Political Parties: Research and Theory,"
in Ada W. Finifter (ed.), Political Science: The State of the Discipline II. Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 1993. Pp. 163-191. Also published as "Sravnitel'noe izuchenie politicheskikh partii," in G. Golosov and L. Galinka (eds.), Sovremennaia Sravnitel'naia Politologiia (Moscow: Moscow Public Science Foundation, 1997), pp. 84-143. ["Comparative Study of Political Parties," in Contemporary Comparative Politology, translated by G. Golosov]
"Patterns in Former Communist Countries"
section in "Political Parties and Party Systems" in Encyclopaedia Britannica (1993).
"Political Parties," translated into Russian
Chaper 8, "Political Parties," from Janda, Berry, Goldman, The Challenge of Democracy, 2nd Ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989), in

1992

"The American Constitutional Framework and the Structure of American Political Parties,"
in Peter F. Nardulli (ed.), The Constitution nd American Political Development: An Institutinal Perspective, (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992), pp. 179-206.

1989

"Regional and Religious Support of Political Parties and Effects on Their Issue Positions,"
International Political Science Review, 10 (1989), 349-370.

1985

"Formalizing and Testing Duverger's Theories on Political Parties,"
Comparative Political Studies, 18 (July, 1985), 139-169. (With Desmond King) Reprinted in Steven B. Wolinetz, (Ed.), Political Parties (Hampshire, U.K., Dartmouth Publishing, forthcoming).
"Ecology of Party Strength in Western Europe: A Regional Analysis,"
Comparative Political Studies, 18 (July, 1985), 170-169. (With Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane)

1984

"Concepts to Data: The Problem of Political Parties,"
European Political Data Newsletter, No. 53 (December, 1984), 13-23. Reprinted in part in International Classification, 11 (1984), 100-102.

1983

"How Well Does 'Region' Explain Political Party Characteristics?"
Political Geography, 2 (1983), 197-203. (With Robin Gillies)
"Cross-National Measures of Party Organizations and Organizational Theory,"
European Journal of Political Research, 11 (Winter, 1983), 319-332.

1982

"Managing Qualitative Information and Quantitative Data on Political Parties,"
Social Science Information Studies, 2 (1982), 113-129.
"The Logic of Political Ecology Analysis,"
in Dag Anckar, Erik Damgaard, and Henry Valen (Eds.), Partier, Ideologier, Valjare. Abo, Finland: Abo Akademi, 1982. Pp. 211-263. (with Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane)
"What's in a Name? Party Labels Around the World,"
in F. W. Riggs (ed.), The COCTA Conference: Proceedings of the Conference on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis in the Social Sciences. Frankfurt: Indeks Verlag, 1982. Pp. 46-55.

1980

"A Note on Measures of Party System Change,"
Comparative Political Studies, 12 (January, 1980), 412-423.
"A Comparative Analysis of Party Organizations--U.S., Europe, and the World,"
in William J. Crotty (ed.), The Party Symbol. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1980. Pp. 339-358.
"Primrose Paths to Political Reform: Reforming v. Strengthening American Parties,"
in William J. Crotty (ed.), Paths to Political Reform. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1980. Pp. 309-347.

1975

"A World-Wide Study of Political Parties,"
in Benjamin Mittman and Lorraine Borman (Eds.), Personalized Data Base Systems. New York: Wiley, 1975. Pp. 129-137.

1973

"The Status of the International Comparative Political Parties Project,"
International Studies Newsletter (Fall, 1973), 49-52.

1970

"Data Quality Control and Library Research on Political Parties,"
in Raoul Naroll and Ronald Cohen (Eds.), The Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology. New York: Natural History Press, 1970. Pp. 962-973.

1968

"Retrieving Information for a Comparative Study of Political Parties,"
in William J. Crotty (ed.), Approaches to the Study of Party Organization. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1968. Pp. 159-215.
"Political Research with Miracode--A 16mm. Microfilm Information Retrieval System,"
Social Science Information, 6 (April-June, 1967), 169-181. Reprinted in NMA Journal, 1 (Winter, 1968), 41-47.
Book Reviews (Underlined titles available on Internet)

2019

Piero Ignazi,
Party and Democracy: Th e Uneve Road to Party Lehitimacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) in Party Politics (2019)

2013

Benjamin Reilly and Per Nordlund (eds.),
Political parties in conflict-prone societies: Regulation, engineering and democatic developent..Tokyo: United Nations Universit Press, 2008, in Party Politics, 19 (2013), 523-525.

2006

John C. Green and Rick Farmer (eds.),
The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties, 4th ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), in Party Politics, 12 (May, 2006), pp. 441-443.

2003

Larry Diamond and Richard Gunther (eds.),
Political Parties and Democracy (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) in Party Politics, 9 (March, 2003), 257-259.

1998

Moshe Maor,
Political Parties and Party Systems: Comparative Approaches and the British Experience, (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). In Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration, 2 (April, 1998), 246-247.

1996

Herbert E. Alexander (ed.)
"Campaign Money: Reform and Reality in the States," Daily Northwestern (December 1, 1996)

1995

Kay Lawson,
How Parties Work (New York: Praeger, 1994) in American Political Science Review, 89 (December, 1995), 1055-1056.

1994

Charles D. Ameringer (ed.),
Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992). In Journal of Politics, 56 (May, 1994), 556 558.

1992

Tatu Vanhanen.
The Process of Democratization: A Comparative Study of 147 States, 1980-1988 (New York: Crane Russak, 1991). In Journal of Politics, 54 (August, 1992), 928-930.

1988

Warren E. Miller and M. Kent Jennings.
Parties in Transition: A Longitudinal Study of Party Elites and Party Supporters.
(New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1986). In Congress and the Presidency, 15 (Spring, 1988), 107-110.

1982

Jerome M. Clubb, William H. Flanigan, and Nancy H. Zingale.
Partisan Realignment: Voters, Parties and Government in American History.
(Beverly Hills, California: Sage Library of Social Research, Vol. 108, 1980). In The American Political Science Review, 76 (March, 1982).

1979

Ian Budge, Ivor Crewe, and Dennis Farlie (eds.).
Party Identification and Beyond: Representations of Voting and Party Competition. (London: Wiley, 1976) in Computers and The Humanities, 13 (1979), 131-132.

1978

Lawrence C. Dodd.
Coalitions in Parliamentary Government. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1976) in The American Political Science Review, 72 (June, 1978), 722-724.

1971

Stein Rokkan and Jean Meyriat (eds.).
International Guide to Electoral Statistics, Volume 1, National Elections in Western Europe (The Hague: Mouton, 1969). In Midwest Journal of Political Science 15 (February, 1971), pp. 148-151.
Stanley Henig (ed.).
European Political Parties (New York: Praeger, 1969) in Midwest Journal of Political Science, 15 (February, 1971) pp. 148-151.
Papers and Addresses (Underlined titles available on Internet)

2013

"The Social Bases of U.S. Political Parties: 1952-2012, Social Support and Political Interests,"
Paper presented at the 2013 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois

2010

"Party System Effects on Country Governance, I"
Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. (with Jin-young Kwak and Julieta Suarez-Cao)
"Party Systems Effects on Country Governance, II"
Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the America Political Science Association, Wasington, DC. (with Jin-young Kwak and Julieta Suarez-Cao)

2009

"Competition and Volatility in Parliamentary Party Systems for 212 Polities,"
Paper presehted at the 2009 Annual Meetingof the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. (with Jinyoung Kwak)
"Laws Against Party Switching, Defecting or Floor-Crossing in National Parliaments,"
Paper presented at the 2009 World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Santiago, Chile.

2007

"Assessing Laws That Ban Party Switching, Defecting, or Floor-Crossing in National Parliaments,"
Paper prepared for the United Nations Development Program Workshop, "Right to Recall: A Right of the Party or of the Electorate?" Hotel Krasnapolsky, Paramaribo, Suriname, August 11, 2007

2006

"Creating a Cross-National Database of Party Laws,"
Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 22, Chicago, Illinois.
"How Nations Govern Political Parties,"
Prepared for delivery at the 2006 World Congress of the International Political Science Association, July 12, Fukuoka, Japan.
"Measuring National Performance on Models of Party Regulation,"
Prepared for delivery at the Expert Meeting on Political Party Development in Conflict-prone Societies, Organized by the Clingendael Institute, October 25, 2006; The Hague, Netherlands.
"Six Issues in Regulating Political Parties,"
Prepared for delivery at the Expert Meeting on Political Party Development in Conflict-prone Societies, Organized by the Clingendael Institute, October 25, 2006; The Hague, Netherlands.
"Clarifying Concepts in Democracy Assistance: 'Engineering' v. 'Regulating'"
Prepared for delivery at the Expert Meeting on Political Party Development in Conflict-prone Societies, Organized by the Clingendael Institute, October 25, 2006; The Hague, Netherlands.

2005

"Goldilocks and Party Law: How Much Law Is Just Right?"
Prepared for delivery at the American Political Science Association "Short Course" on Political Parties in Emerging Democracies," Washington, DC, August 31, 2005.

2004

"Role of Law in Political Party Change,"
Paper prepared for "Change in Political Parties," a Policy Roundtable Sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International development and the Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development, Washington, D.C., October 1, 2004.

2003

"Political Parties Research Via the Internet,"
Prepared for delivery at the 19th World Congress of the International Political Science Association Durban, South Africa, June 29-July 4, 2003 (with Jeffrey Cousens and Michael J. Faber).

2000

"The International Comparative Political Parties Project: 1980 to 2000,"
presented at the "Political Organizations and Parties Section of the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.

1995

"Substance v. Packaging: An Empirical Analysis of Parties' Issue Identity,"
paper delivered at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1. (With Robert Harmel and Alex Tan)

1994

"Why Parties Change: Some New Evidence Using Party Manifestos," (see publication)
paper delivered at the XIII World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany, July 18-23, 1994 (with Christine Edens and Patricia Goff).
"Change in Party Identity: Evidence from Party Manifestos," (see publication above)
paper delivered at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September 1-4.
"Restructuring the Party Systems in Central Europe,"
paper delivered at an International Symposium, Democratization and Political Reform in Korea, sponsored by the Korean Political Science Association, Seoul, Korea, November 19, 1994.

1993

"Performance, Leadership, Factions, and Party Change: An Empirical Analysis," (see publication)
paper delivered at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September.

1992

"Environment, Performance, and Leadership as Factors in Party Change,"
paper delivered at the 1992 Workshop of the European Consortium for Political Research, University of Limerick, Ireland (with Robert Harmel)
"An Integrated Theory of Party Goals and Party Change," (see publication)
paper delivered at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 3-6 (with Robert Harmel).

1991

"Beliefs, Values, and Ethical Choices in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,"
talk at the seminar on "Beliefs, Values, and Ethical Choices in Today's World," Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado, July 28-August 2, 1991.
"Presidential Elections in Russia and the United States: Is Majority Popular Vote Desirable?"
Paper delivered at the Conference on Political Analysis, Institute of Socio-Political Research, Moscow, December 10-14, 1991.

1990

"Toward a Performance Theory of Change in Political Parties,"
paper delivered at the 12th World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Research Committee 18, Section 4, "Modeling Party Change," Madrid, Spain, July 9-13, 1990.

1988

"The American Constitutional Framework and the Structure of American Political Parties,"
paper delivered at the Conference on The Constitution and the American Political Process, University of Illinois, December 6-8, 1988. (see publication)
"Region and Religion as Factors Underlying Support for National Political Parties," (see publication)
paper delivered at the XIV World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C., August 28-September 1, 1988.

1987

"Rags and Riches in the Cross-National Literature on Political Parties,"
paper presented at the 1987 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

1985

"Studies on Party Organization from the International Comparative Political Parties Project,"
paper prepared for a Roundtable on Research on Party Organization, 1985 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans.

1983

"Testing Duverger's Theories on Political Parties," (see publication)
paper delivered the 1983 Meeting of the International Studies Association, Mexico City. (With Desmond King)
"Concepts to Data: The Problem of Political Parties,"
paper prepared for the 1983 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago. (see publication)

1982

"How Good Are Regional Explanations of Party Politics?" (see publication)
prepared for delivery at the 1982 Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, San Antonio, March 17-21. (With Robin Gilles)
"The Logic of Political Ecology Analysis," (see publication )
prepared for delivery at the 1982 Meeting of the International Sociological Association, Mexico City, August. (With Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane)
"Ecological Determinants of Regional Voting Patterns in Western Europe,"
delivered at the 1982 Meeting of the International Sociological Association, Mexico City, August. (With Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane)
(psee publication)
"Cross-National Measures of Party Organizations and Organizational Theory,"
prepared for the 1982 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, The Denver Hilton Hotel, September 2-5.

1981

"What's in a Name? Party Labels Around the World,"
prepared for delivery at the Conference on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis in the Social Sciences, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany, May 24-17, 1981.(see publication)
"Let's Have a Party: The Republican Presence in the 1980 Election,"
prepared for delivery at the 1981 Meeting of the Illinois Political Science Association, Loyola University, Chicago, October 23 24.

1979

"Managing Qualitative Information and Quantitative Data on Political Parties,"
paper delivered at the 1979 Annual Meeting of the International Political Science Association, Moscow.
"Variations in Party Organization Across Nations and Differences in Party Performance,"
paper delivered at the 1979 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington.

1978

"Validating a Conceptual Framework for Comparing Political Parties,"
Northwestern University, ICPP Reports No. 18 (March, 1978).
"Environmental Constraints on the Degree of Party Organization," (published as Chapter 4 in Parties and Their Environment)
paper delivered at the Conference on Political Parties in Modern Societies, Northwestern University, September 21-22, 1978.

1977

" A Survey of American Political Parties in World Perspective,"
paper presented for discussion at The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Chicago, Summer, 1977.

1975

"Social Aggregation, Articulation, and Representation of Political Parties: A Cross National Analysis,"
paper delivered at the 1975 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco. (With Robin Gillies)

1974

"American and European Political Parties Compared on Organization, Centralization, Coherence, and Involvement,"
paper delivered at the 1974 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 29-September 2, Chicago, Illinois

1971

"Conceptual Equivalence and Multiple Indicators in the Cross-National Analysis of Political Parties,"
paper delivered at the Workshop on Indicators of National Development, sponsored by ISSC/UNESCO/ECPR and held in Lausanne, Switzerland, August 9-14, 1971.
"Diversities Among Political Parties in Industrialized Societies,"
paper delivered at the Symposium on Comparative Analysis of Highly Industrialized Societies, sponsored by the International Social Science Council and held in Bellagio, Italy, August 1-17, 1971.
"A Technique for Asessing the Conceptual Equivalence of Institutional Variables Across and Within Culture Areas,"
Prepared for delivery at the 1971 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September' 7-11

1970

"Measuring Issue Orientations of Parties Across Nations,"
paper delivered at the 1970 Midwest Conference of Political Parties in Chicago.

1969

"The International Comparative Political Parties Project,"
paper delivered at the 1969 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York.

1964

"A Methodological Approach to the Comparative Study of Political Parties,"
paper delivered at the Comparative Politics Seminar, University of Michigan, November 18, 1964.
Journals and Series Editted (Underlined titles available on Internet)

1995-

Party Politics
London: Sage Publications. (Co-editor with David Farrell and Paul Webb)

1981-83

VOX POP.
Newsletter of Political Organizations and Parties, Subfield of the American Political Science Association, 1981-1983. (Editor)

1967-68

ICPP Bibliography Series.
Evanston: International Comparative Political Parties Project, Northwestern University, 1967-68. (Editor)
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