Introduction: political articulation: the structured creativity of parties -- The political origins of working class formation in the United States : Chicago, 1844-1886 -- Continuity or change? Rethinking left party formation in Canada -- Religious politics, hegemony, and the market economy: Parties in the making of Turkey's liberal-conservative bloc and Egypt's diffuse Islamization -- Democratic disarticulation and its dangers: Cleavage formation and promiscuous powersharing in Indonesian party politics -- Weak party articulation, and development in India, 1991-2014 -- Coda: Hegemony and democracy in Gramsci's prison notebooks

1. Political parties -- Social aspects
2. Social conflict -- Political aspects
3. Social structure -- Political aspects
4. Political sociology
5. Comparative government