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How and why did parties emerge historically? In
Origin of the Mass Party, Edwin F. Ackerman develops a theory about the emergence of the party as a type of political organization through a careful comparison between the scenarios in post-revolutionary Mexico and Bolivia, and includes a chapter as well on iconic Western European mass parties.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I
- Chapter 1: Mexico and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective and the Sociology of Party Formation
- Chapter 2: Dispossession and the Mass Party
- Part II
- Chapter 3: The Emergence of the PRI in Mexico
- Chapter 4: The Failure of Party Formation in Bolivia
- Part III
- Chapter 5: Dispossession and Party Formation in Broader Comparative Perspective: Germany's SPD and the (Absent) British Labour Party
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Index
About the author
Edwin F. Ackerman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His academic work has been published in Social Science History, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Journal of Language and Politics, Contexts, and NACLA Report on the Americas, among other venues, and has been featured in National Public Radio (NPR), among other media outlets. He is a Ford Fellow and American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program recipient, and was a Global History Fellow at Harvard's Weatherhead Center (18'-19'). He received a PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley.
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How and why did parties emerge historically? In Origin of the Mass Party, Edwin F. Ackerman develops a theory about the emergence of the party as a type of political organization through a careful comparison between the scenarios in post-revolutionary Mexico and Bolivia, and includes a chapter as well on iconic Western European mass parties.
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The argument is insightful and presented clearly...Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty.
