Generally speaking, the effects of international political party assistance are viewed nega-tively, or at least controversially. This study attributes some of the shortcomings of political party aid to the poor relationship between assistance providers and political science party research. They...

Mainwaring (1993, p. 3) defines a weakly institutionalized party system as one that features “considerable instability in patterns of party competition, weak party roots in society, comparatively low legitimacy of parties, and weak party organizations.” In such systems, political parties...