The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations.(Review) (book review)

The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations. By Gregory J. Kasza. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. 217p $27.50.

Much scholarly attention has been directed toward how political parties and interest groups work to mobilize mass publics. The result is a rather large body of research on the origin and operation of these phenomena in both democratic and nondemocratic states. In this book, Kasza attempts to fill an important gap in the literature on the mechanisms of mass politics by directing our attention to what he calls a pervasive and powerful authoritarian ...

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