Table of Contents:
  • Democracy and the organization of political parties
  • Italian politics and parties : an overview
  • Italian socialism: a review
  • The Provinical Party, 1944-1963: the persistence of factions
  • The Provincial Party: organization
  • The Provincial Party: an introduction to the actors
  • Participation and political competence
  • Socialization and recruitment: conventional and ideological socialists
  • Primary and secondary group influences on membership behavior
  • The relevance of ideology
  • Membership attitudes toward party politics
  • Communications and party politics
  • Democracy in the provincial federation
  • Democracy and the organization of political parties: some speculations
  • Appendix I: the sample
  • Appendix II: the members' interview schedule