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Understanding how a party organises itself allows us a glimpse into a party’s true nature. It permits us to look beyond the persona deliberately cultivated and projected to the voters at election time. It also enables us to look beyond the activists’ exalted claims of ideological commitment and purity to see how deep those claims run when faced with the ideology-sullying problems of political survival. The organisation of the party is where the rhetoric meets the reality. It is the nexus between beliefs and action.
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Taggart, P.A. (1996). Organising Anti-Parties. In: The New Populism and the New Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13920-0_5
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