Politics remains a team sport: On the continued relevance of studying party organization

Richard S Katz, The Johns Hopkins University, Tristan Klingelhöfer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Party Politics: The International Journal for the Study of Political Parties and Political Organizations

Published online on March 09, 2026

Abstract

Party Politics, Ahead of Print.
In advanced industrial democracies, politics has become heavily personalized. What are the implications of this process for research on, and the practice of, democracy? Some have called for a reconceptualization of the essence of modern democratic ...