📚 Political Parties

Organised competition: party machines, realignment, and the iron-law-of-oligarchy argument.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject political parties in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei	Karl Marx	1848	459
	江苏省志	江苏省地方志编纂委员会	1994	45
	American political parties	Wilfred E. Binkley	1943	31
	British Elections and Parties Review	David Denver	1998	24
	Government and parties in continental Europe	A. Lawrence Lowell	1896	23
	The history of political parties in the state of New-York	Jabez D. Hammond	1840	19
	Código eleitoral (1965)	Brazil	1950	18
	Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties	Moisei Ostrogorski	2015	18
	POLITICAL MAN	Seymour Martin Lipset	1960	17
	American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date	Thomas V. Cooper	1882	13
	Comparative European party systems	Alan Siaroff	2000	13
	The Parnell movement, with a sketch of Irish parties from 1843	T. P. O'Connor	1886	12
	The age of Grey and Peel	H. W. Carless Davis	1929	12
	The British Party System	Stephen Ingle	1987	12
	Political parties of the world	Alan J. Day	1980	11
	An economic theory of democracy	Anthony Downs	1957	9
	Parties, politics, and public policy in America	William J. Keefe	1972	9
	Modelli di partito	Angelo Panebianco	1982	9
	Party on!	John Kenneth White	2012	9
	Political parties	Maurice Duverger	1954	8
	La vie politique en France depuis 1940	Jacques Chapsal	1966	8
	Party politics in America	Frank J. Sorauf	1968	8
	The international almanac of electoral history	Thomas T. Mackie	1974	8
	La France aux urnes	Pierre Bréchon	1993	8
	The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776	Carl Lotus Becker	1904	7
	Les partis politiques	Maurice Duverger	1964	7
	The Nationalization of Politics	Daniele Caramani	2004	7
	Zur Soziologie des Parteiwesens in der modernen Demokratie	Michels, Robert	1911	6
	The people's choice	Paul Felix Lazarsfeld	1944	6
	Modern Political Parties	Sigmund Neumann	1955	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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