Download or read book Passions and Interests written by Gerald M. Pomper and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pomper examines both empirically and normatively, models of party as bureaucratic organization, governing caucus, cause advocate, ideological community, social movement, urban machine, rational office-seeking team, and personal faction. He evaluates the contributions of U.S. political parties to democratic values and presents a program to strengthen the parties as institutions of American democracy.