Parties without partisans : political change in advanced industrial democracies / edited by Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg.

List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Unthinkable Democracy: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies -- 2. The Decline of Party Identifications -- 3. The Consequences of Partisan Dealignment -- 4. The Decline of Party Mobilization -- 5. Parties without Members? Party Organization in a Changing Electoral Environment -- 6. Political Parties as Campaign Organizations -- 7. From Social Integration to Electoral Contestation: The Changing Distribution of Power within Political Parties -- 8. Parties in Legislature: Two Competing Explanations -- 9. Parties at the Core of Government -- 10. From Platform Declarations to Policy Outcomes: Changing Party Profiles an Partisan Influence over Policy -- 11. On the Primacy of Party in Government: Why Legislative Parties Can Survive Party Decline in the Electorate -- 12. Partisan Change and the Democratic Process -- References -- Index.