The Katz & Mair - Koole Debate about 'Cartel Parties'

Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - Region: Western Europe, grade: A-, Central European University Budapest (Department of Political Science), course: Political Parties, language: English, abstract: The ‘cartel party’ concept proposed by Richard S. Katz and Peter Mair in Party Politics provoked a debate between the authors and Ruud Koole. In this paper I will redraw and assess this ...