Passions and Interests: Political Party Concepts of American Democracy. (book reviews)

Architecture governs here: I cannot recall a scholarly book in political science with so many categories and so much interrelating of categories in so few pages. The result is a deductive rigor and tightly reasoned argument that leaves the reader no room for nodding or skimming.

Employing three dichotomous dimensions of political parties, Pomper generates eight master concepts (2 x 2 x 2). Some relate differently to the American party experience than do others. Pomper recognizes, for example, that the models of the party as either social movement or ideological community apply only to ...

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