Research Directions

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  • Leon D. Epstein

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1993.14.0.467-480

Abstract

An invitation to reflect generally on past and prospective parties research is appealing to an old-timer. I acknowledge the risk of drawing so much on earlier writing that my essay will be of a kind that I scorned a few decades ago when my senior colleagues repeated themselves. The risk is un-mistakable in my first section where I write about our discipline’s historical concern with political parties (Epstein 1986, 9-39). An abbreviated account of that concern, however, provides the intellectual context for the research questions that I shall later suggest for new or additional scholarly inquiry. In raising those questions, I am less likely to repeat myself because most of them are on subjects with which I have dealt only tangentially.

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