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Notes
1 Slightly revised and updated version of the inaugural Peter Mair memorial lecture, delivered at the PSAI annual conference, 20 October 2012, Londonderry.
2 The digital ‘pre-print’ version of the article appeared a few months before Mair's death; the printed version appeared in 2012.
3 ‘British democracy in terminal decline, warns report’, The Guardian, 6 July 2012.
4 In their later restatement of the cartel party thesis, Katz and Mair (Citation2009: 755) pointed out that already in the 1950s Kirchheimer had drawn attention to what he called the ‘state-party cartel’. This was not just unbeknownst to them at the time, but did not have much traction in the wider political science community either.
5 The only exception to this pattern is Latvia, where public funding was not introduced until 2010.
6 The figures for the late 1980s are taken from the contributions in Katz and Mair (Citation1992).
7 For example, ‘Don't blame the technocrats – they're just doing their job’, The Independent, 19 November 2011.
8 ‘A party is any political group that presents at elections, and is capable of placing through elections, candidates for public office’ (Sartori, Citation1976: 64).
9 These qualifications are in fact Mair's own, for his ‘doctor father’ Hans Daalder (Mair, Citation2011c: ix–x), but could equally forcefully be attributed to his own work.
