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Books (Underlined titles available on Internet) Comparing Political Parties. American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1978 (with Robert Harmel). Comparative Political Parties Data, 1950-1962. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Inter-University consortium for Political and Social Research, 1979. Political Parties: A Cross-National Survey This 1,019 page volume was published in1980. It consists of two parts. All 173 pages of Part I, "Variables,Codes, and Summary Statistics," were reproduced and are available on this site. Some additional information from Part II, "Information on Political Parties," is also available. Political Parties and Their Environment: Limits to Reform? New York: Longman, 1982. (With Robert Harmel). Party Systems and Country Governance. (See also the Student Project Page) Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2011. (With Jiin-Young Kwak)   Monographs ICPP Codes and Indexing Manual. Evanston: Northwestern University, International Comparative Political Parties, 1968. ICPP Technical Manual. Evanston: Northwestern University, International Comparative Political Parties Project, 1968. ICPP Variables and Coding Manual. Evanston: Northwestern University, Comparative Political Parties Project, 1972.   Journals and Series Edited (Underlined titles available on Internet) ICPP Bibliography Series. Evanston: International Comparative Political Parties Project, Northwestern University, 1967-68. (Editor) VOX POP. Newsletter of Political Organizations and Parties, Subfield of the American Political Science Association, 1981-1983. (Editor) Party Politics London: Sage Publications. (Co-editor with David Farrell and Paul Webb)   Articles and Book Chapters (Underlined titles available on Internet) "Political Research with Miracode--A 16mm. Microfilm Information Retrieval System," Social Science Information, 6 (April-June, 1967), 169-181. Reprinted in NMA Journal, 1 (Winter, 1968), 41-47. "Retrieving Information for a Comparative Study of Political Parties," in William J. Crotty (ed.), Approaches to the Study of Party Organization. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1968. Pp. 159-215. "Data Quality Control and Library Research on Political Parties," in Raoul Naroll and Ronald Cohen (Eds.), The Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology. New York: Natural History Press, 1970. Pp. 962-973. "A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Political Parties," Sage Professional Papers in Comparative Politics, 01-002. Edited by Harry Eckstein and Ted Gurr. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1970. Pp. 75-126. "The Status of the International Comparative Political Parties Project," International Studies Newsletter (Fall, 1973), 49-52. "A World-Wide Study of Political Parties," in Benjamin Mittman and Lorraine Borman (Eds.), Personalized Data Base Systems. New York: Wiley, 1975. Pp. 129-137. "A Comparative Analysis of Party Organizations--U.S., Europe, and the World," in William J. Crotty (ed.), The Party Symbol. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1980. Pp. 339-358. "A Note on Measures of Party System Change," Comparative Political Studies, 12 (January, 1980), 412 423. "Managing Qualitative Information and Quantitative Data on Political Parties," Social Science Information Studies, 2 (1982), 113-129. "The Logic of Political Ecology Analysis," in Dag Anckar, Erik Damgaard, and Henry Valen (Eds.), Partier, Ideologier, Valjare. Abo, Finland: Abo Akademi, 1982. Pp. 211-263. (With Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane) "What's in a Name? Party Labels Around the World," in F. W. Riggs (ed.), The COCTA Conference: Proceedings of the Conference on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis in the Social Sciences. Frankfurt: Indeks Verlag, 1982. Pp. 46-55. "How Well Does 'Region' Explain Political Party Characteristics?" Political Geography, 2 (1983), 197-203. (With Robin Gillies) "Cross-National Measures of Party Organizations and Organizational Theory," European Journal of Political Research, 11 (Winter, 1983), 319-332. "Concepts to Data: The Problem of Political Parties," European Political Data Newsletter, No. 53 (December, 1984), 13-23. Reprinted in part in International Classification, 11 (1984), 100-102. "Ecology of Party Strength in Western Europe: A Regional Analysis," Comparative Political Studies, 18 (July, 1985), 170-169. (With Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane) "Formalizing and Testing Duverger's Theories on Political Parties," Comparative Political Studies, 18 (July, 1985), 139-169. (With Desmond King) Reprinted in Steven B. Wolinetz, (Ed.), Political Parties (Hampshire, U.K., Dartmouth Publishing, forthcoming). "Regional and Religious Support of Political Parties and Effects on Their Issue Positions," International Political Science Review, 10 (1989), 349-370. "Comparative Political Parties: Research and Theory," in Ada W. Finifter (ed.), Political Science: The State of the Discipline II. Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 1993. Pp. 163-191. Also published as "Sravnitel'noe izuchenie politicheskikh partii," in G. Golosov and L. Galinka (eds.), Sovremennaia Sravnitel'naia Politologiia (Moscow: Moscow Public Science Foundation, 1997) ["Comparative Study of Political Parties," in Contemporary Comparative Politology, translated by G. Golosov] "Patterns in Former Communist Countries" section in "Political Parties and Party Systems" in Encyclopaedia Britannica (1993). "An Integrated Theory of Party Goals and Party Change," in Journal of Theoretical Politics, 6 (July, 1994), 259-287. (With Robert Harmel) Reprinted in Steven B. Wolinetz, (Ed.), Political Parties (Hampshire, U.K., Dartmouth Publishing, forthcoming). "Performance, Leadership, Factions, and Party Change: An Empirical Analysis," West European Politics, 18 (January, 1995), 1-33. (With Robert Harmel, Uk Heo, and Alexander Tan) "Changes in Party Identity: Evidence from Party Manifestos," Party Politics, 1 (April, 1995), 171-196. "Effects of Party Organization on Performance during the 'Golden Age' of Parties," Political Studies, XLVI (1998), 611-63--with Tyler Colman. "Famine to Feast: New Books on Comparative Party Politics," International Politics, 35 (June, 1998), 233 240. "Political Parties and Elections," Political Science Syllabus Collection, Robin Kolodny (ed.), Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 2001. "Financing Election Campaigns in the United States," in Election Management 2005 (Seoul, Korea: National Electoral Commission, Republic of Korea, 2005) "Adopting Party Law," in Political Parties and Democracy in Theoretical and Practical Perspectives (Washington, DC: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 2005). Reprinted in John Hardin Young (ed.), International Election Principles: Democracy and the Rule of Law (Chicago, IL: American Bar Foundation, 2009), pp. 81-134. "Party Law," in The International Encyclopedia of Political Science, forthcoming. "Founding POP: The Origins of Our APSA Section," VOX POP, 26 (Spring, 2008), pp. 1 and 3. "Party Politics and POP," in Party Politics, (May, 2009), 259-263. "Assessing Laws That Ban Party Switching, Defecting, or Floor-Crossing in National Parliaments," (see paper below) in Democracy Unit - cahier nr 10, Teurgroeprecht (Recall) Paramaribo, Suriname: University of Suriname, 2008, pp. 83-113. "Country Governance, Rule of Law, and Party Systems," in the Russian language journal,"Political Science," forthcoming. "Assessing Laws That Ban Party Switching, Defecting, or Floor-Crossing in National Parliaments," in Democracy Unit - cahier nr 10, Teurgroeprecht (Recall) Paramaribo, Suriname: University of Suriname, 2008, pp. 83-113. "Measuring Party System: Revisitng Competitiveness and Volatility in Parliamentary Party Systems," The Korean Journal of Area Studies, 28 (August, 2010), 21-49 (with Jin-Young Kwak). "Governance, Rule of Law, and Party Systems," («Governance», ???????????? ?????? ? ????????? ???????) in ???????????? ????? [Political Science], (No. 4, 2010), 113-142. "Party Law," in The Encyclopedia of Political Science, Volume 4, (Washington, DC: CQPress, 2010), 1190-1191. "Interest Aggregation and Articulation," in The Encyclopedia of Political Science, Volume 3, (Washington, DC: CQPress, 2010), 798-799.   Book Reviews Stanley Henig (ed.). European Political Parties (New York: Praeger, 1969) in Midwest Journal of Political Science, 15 (February, 1971) pp. 148-151. Stein Rokkan and Jean Meyriat (eds.). International Guide to Electoral Statistics, Volume 1, National Elections in Western Europe (The Hague: Mouton, 1969). In Midwest Journal of Political Science 15 (February, 1971), pp. 148-151. Lawrence C. Dodd. Coalitions in Parliamentary Government. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1976) in The American Political Science Review, 72 (June, 1978), 722-724. Ian Budge, Ivor Crewe, and Dennis Farlie (eds.). Party Identification and Beyond: Representations of Voting and Party Competition. (London: Wiley, 1976) in Computers and The Humanities, 13 (1979), 131-132. Tatu Vanhanen. The Process of Democratization: A Comparative Study of 147 States, 1980-1988 (New York: Crane Russak, 1991). In Journal of Politics, 54 (August, 1992), 928-930. Charles D. Ameringer (ed.), Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s--Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992). In Journal of Politics, 56 (May, 1994), 556 558. Kay Lawson, How Parties Work (New York: Praeger, 1994) in American Political Science Review, 89 (December, 1995), 1055-1056. Moshe Maor, Political Parties and Party Systems: Comparative Approaches and the British Experience, (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). In Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration, 2 (April, 1998), 246-247. Larry Diamond and Richard Gunther (eds.), Political Parties and Democracy (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) in Party Politics, 9 (March, 2003), 257-259. John C. Green and Rick Farmer (eds.), The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties, 4th ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), in Party Politics, 12 (May, 2006), pp. 441-443. Papers and Addresses "A Methodological Approach to the Comparative Study of Political Parties," paper delivered at the Comparative Politics Seminar, University of Michigan, November 18, 1964. "The International Comparative Political Parties Project," paper delivered at the 1969 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York. "Measuring Issue Orientations of Parties Across Nations," paper delivered at the 1970 Midwest Conference of Political Parties in Chicago. "Conceptual Equivalence and Multiple Indicators in the Cross-National Analysis of Political Parties," paper delivered at the Workshop on Indicators of National Development, sponsored by ISSC/UNESCO/ECPR and held in Lausanne, Switzerland, August 9-14, 1971. "Diversities Among Political Parties in Industrialized Societies," paper delivered at the Symposium on Comparative Analysis of Highly Industrialized Societies, sponsored by the International Social Science Council and held in Bellagio, Italy, August 1-17, 1971. "American and European Political Parties Compared on Organization, Centralization, Coherence, and Involvement," paper delivered at the 1974 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 29-September 2, Chicago, Illinois. "Social Aggregation, Articulation, and Representation of Political Parties: A Cross National Analysis," paper delivered at the 1975 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco. (With Robin Gillies) "Viewing American Political Parties in World Perspective," paper presented for discussion at The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Chicago, January 31, 1978. "Validating a Conceptual Framework for Comparing Political Parties," Northwestern University, ICPP Reports No. 18 (March, 1978). "Environmental Constraints on the Degree of Party Organization," paper delivered at the Conference on Political Parties in Modern Societies, Northwestern University, September 21-22, 1978. "Managing Qualitative Information and Quantitative Data on Political Parties," paper delivered at the 1979 Annual Meeting of the International Political Science Association, Moscow. "Variations in Party Organization Across Nations and Differences in Party Performance," paper delivered at the 1979 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington. "What's in a Name? Party Labels Around the World," prepared for delivery at the Conference on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis in the Social Sciences, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany, May 24-17, 1981. "Let's Have a Party: The Republican Presence in the 1980 Election," prepared for delivery at the 1981 Meeting of the Illinois Political Science Association, Loyola University, Chicago, October 23 24. "How Good Are Regional Explanations of Party Politics?" (see publication above) prepared for delivery at the 1982 Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, San Antonio, March 17-21. (With Robin Gilles) "The Logic of Political Ecology Analysis," (see publication above) prepared for delivery at the 1982 Meeting of the International Sociological Association, Mexico City, August. (With Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane) "Ecological Determinants of Regional Voting Patterns in Western Europe," delivered at the 1982 Meeting of the International Sociological Association, Mexico City, August. (With Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane) "Cross-National Measures of Party Organizations and Organizational Theory," prepared for the 1982 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, The Denver Hilton Hotel, September 2-5. "Testing Duverger's Theories on Political Parties," (see publication above) paper delivered the 1983 Meeting of the International Studies Association, Mexico City. (With Desmond King) "Concepts to Data: The Problem of Political Parties," paper prepared for the 1983 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago. "Studies on Party Organization from the International Comparative Political Parties Project," paper prepared for a Roundtable on Research on Party Organization, 1985 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans. "Rags and Riches in the Cross-National Literature on Political Parties," paper presented at the 1987 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. "The American Constitutional Framework and the Structure of American Political Parties," paper delivered at the Conference on The Constitution and the American Political Process, University of Illinois, December 6-8, 1988. "Region and Religion as Factors Underlying Support for National Political Parties," (see publication above) paper delivered at the XIV World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C., August 28-September 1, 1988. "Toward a Performance Theory of Change in Political Parties," paper delivered at the 12th World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Research Committee 18, Section 4, "Modeling Party Change," Madrid, Spain, July 9-13, 1990. "Beliefs, Values, and Ethical Choices in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union," talk at the seminar on "Beliefs, Values, and Ethical Choices in Today's World," Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado, July 28-August 2, 1991. "Presidential Elections in Russia and the United States: Is Majority Popular Vote Desirable?" Paper delivered at the Conference on Political Analysis, Institute of Socio-Political Research, Moscow, December 10-14, 1991. "Environment, Performance, and Leadership as Factors in Party Change," paper delivered at the 1992 Workshop of the European Consortium for Political Research, University of Limerick, Ireland (with Robert Harmel) "An Integrated Theory of Party Goals and Party Change," (see publication above) paper delivered at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 3-6 (with Robert Harmel). "Performance, Leadership, Factions, and Party Change: An Empirical Analysis," (see publication above) paper delivered at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September. "Why Parties Change: Some New Evidence Using Party Manifestos," (see publication above) paper delivered at the XIII World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany, July 18-23, 1994 (with Christine Edens and Patricia Goff). "Change in Party Identity: Evidence from Party Manifestos," (see publication above) paper delivered at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September 1-4. "Restructuring the Party Systems in Central Europe," paper delivered at an International Symposium, Democratization and Political Reform in Korea, sponsored by the Korean Political Science Association, Seoul, Korea, November 19, 1994. "Substance v. Packaging: An Empirical Analysis of Parties' Issue Identity," paper delivered at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1. (With Robert Harmel and Alex Tan) "The International Comparative Political Parties Project: 1980 to 2000," presented at the "Political Organizations and Parties Section of the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. "Political Parties Research Via the Internet," Prepared for delivery at the 19th World Congress of the International Political Science Association Durban, South Africa, June 29-July 4, 2003 (with Jeffrey Cousens and Michael J. Faber). "Role of Law in Political Party Change," Paper prepared for "Change in Political Parties," a Policy Roundtable Sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International development and the Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development, Washington, D.C., October 1, 2004. "Goldilocks and Party Law: How Much Law Is Just Right?" Prepared for delivery at the American Political Science Association "Short Course" on Political Parties in Emerging Democracies," Washington, DC, August 31, 2005. "Creating a Cross-National Database of Party Laws," Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 22, Chicago, Illinois. "How Nations Govern Political Parties," Prepared for delivery at the 2006 World Congress of the International Political Science Association, July 12, Fukuoka, Japan. "Measuring National Performance on Models of Party Regulation," Prepared for delivery at the Expert Meeting on Political Party Development in Conflict-prone Societies, Organized by the Clingendael Institute, October 25, 2006; The Hague, Netherlands. "Six Issues in Regulating Political Parties," Prepared for delivery at the Expert Meeting on Political Party Development in Conflict-prone Societies, Organized by the Clingendael Institute, October 25, 2006; The Hague, Netherlands. "Assessing Laws That Ban Party Switching, Defecting, or Floor-Crossing in National Parliaments," Paper prepared for the United Nations Development Program Workshop, "Right to Recall: A Right of the Party or of the Electorate?" Hotel Krasnapolsky, Paramaribo, Suriname, August 11, 2007 "Competition and Volatility in Parliamentary Party Systems for 212 Polities," Paper presehted at the 2009 Annual Meetingof the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. (with Jinyoung Kwak) "Laws Against Party Switching, Defecting or Floor-Crossing in National Parliaments," Paper presented at the 2009 World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Santiago, Chile. "Party System Effects on Country Governance, I" Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. (with Jinyoung Kwak and Julieta Suarez-Cao)