Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies brings together insights from the worlds of party politics and public administration in order to an

Party and Government is an eleven-country study of the relationship between the governments of liberal democracies, mainly from Western Europe, but also includi

Here, Conor O'Dwyer introduces the phenomenon of runaway state-building as a consequence of patronage politics in underdeveloped, noncompetitive party systems.

'Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies' brings together insights from the worlds of party politics and public administration in order to

In this rich and broad-ranging volume, Giovanni Sartori outlines what is now recognised to be the most comprehensive and authoritative approach to the classific