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The aim of this study is to understand better the dynamics of multi-level party politics in Western Europe. In general terms, party research looks at its subject from two different angles. One angle is to analyse individual party organizations, that is, their internal structures and power balances, their social bases and their programmatic stances. Scholars have tried to use these criteria in order to distinguish between different party types which have evolved over time. Other approaches have been to search for similarities and differences between parties according to their belonging to a specific ideological party family or according to their historic origins (for an overview, see von Beyme 1985).
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© 2012 Klaus Detterbeck
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Detterbeck, K. (2012). A Framework for Analysis. In: Multi-Level Party Politics in Western Europe. Comparative Territorial Politics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137017857_5
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