Introduction: About This Special Issue

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  • Thomas R. Marshall

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.2002.23.0.303-304

Abstract

Understanding the role of political parties is critical to understanding political change in the world today. Political parties often help to translate mass public opinion into government policy-making. Parties also are them-selves rapidly changing. During the last decade many once-dominant parties fell into decline in many parts of the world, while other parties rapidly gained in strength. In short, political parties both shape political change and themselves are affected by social changes.

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2003-01-01

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