Party research

The party research is an interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of political parties busy. Depending on the interest in knowledge, she uses questions and research methods from various humanities and social science disciplines .

The party research explains z. B. the development of party systems, the emergence of new parties, the national differences of the parties.

Interdisciplinary references

Party research is traditionally assigned to political science . There are references here primarily to the sub-areas of political theory and the history of ideas , for example with regard to the theoretical or ideological foundations of parties, and comparative political science , e.g. B. with regard to the role of parties in individual political systems or the comparison of political currents in different states .

In addition, party research is also a classic area of historical science . In terms of epochs, it is assigned to modern history and systematically to political history . The main focus here is on the formation and development of parties and their classification in the respective political or social context.

In addition to these two main trends, party research shows isolated references to law , sociology and, more recently, communication studies .

literature

• Uwe Andersen (Ed.): Parties - Party Systems - Party Research. Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach 2009, ISBN 3-899-74490-X .
• Klaus von Beyme : Parties in Transition. From the popular parties to the professionalized voters' parties. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-531-13578-3 .
• Frank Decker , Viola Neu (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German parties. 3. Edition. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 3-658-17994-5 .
• Richard Gunther, Jose R. Montero, Juan J. Linz (Eds.): Political Parties. Old Concepts and New Challenges. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-198-29669-X .
• Jürgen Hartmann : Party Research. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1979, ISBN 3-534-08087-4 .
• Uwe Jun , Benjamin Höhne (ed.): Party families. Identifying your identity or just a label? Budrich, Opladen / Berlin 2012, ISBN 3-86649-441-6
• Richard S. Katz, William J. Crotty (Eds.): Handbook of Party Politics. Sage Publications, London / Thousand Oaks 2006, ISBN 0-761-94314-5 .
• Julian Krüper , Heike Merten, Thomas Poguntke (eds.): Party studies. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 3-8487-1777-8 .
• Kurt Lenk , Franz Neumann : Theory and Sociology of Political Parties. 2 volumes. Luchterhand, Neuwied 1974, ISBN 3-472-72588-5 , ISBN 3-472-72589-3 .
• Seymour M. Lipset , Stein Rokkan (Ed.): Party Systems and Voter Alignments. Cross-National Perspectives. Free Press, New York / London 1967, ISBN 0-029-19150-5 .
• Kurt Richard Luther, Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (eds.): Political Parties in the New Europe. Political and Analytical Challenges. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-199-25322-6 .
• Peter Mair, Cas Mudde: The party family and its study. In: Annual Review of Political Science. Volume 1, 1998, ISSN  1094-2939 , pp. 211-229 ( online ).
• Oskar Niedermayer (Ed.): Handbook of political party research. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 3-531-17698-6 .
• Gilbert Ziebura (Ed.): Contributions to general political party theory. On the theory, typology and comparison of political parties. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1969, DNB 456057536 .

Web links

• Institute for German and European Party Law and Party Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• Working group on party and political culture research at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Working group on party research at the German Association for Political Science
• Commission on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties
• Party Politics. The International Journal for the Study of Political Parties and Political Organizations (English)