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“Party control” as a book category centers on how political parties acquire, organize, and exercise power over governments, legislatures, and societies. It spans studies of internal party machinery—leadership selection, caucus discipline, whips, patronage networks, financing, messaging—and the external tools parties use to shape outcomes, from candidate selection and electoral rules to propaganda, media influence, and, in some contexts, surveillance and coercion. The category covers both democratic settings, where party discipline and coalition management drive policymaking, and authoritarian or one‑party systems, where the ruling party permeates state institutions and public life. Works may be scholarly analyses, histories, case studies, memoirs, investigative journalism, or political fiction and dystopias, with recurring themes of legitimacy, accountability, resistance, reform, and the impact of party dominance on institutions, rights, and everyday life.

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