Rules and resources: The legitimation of political parties in france and the united states

Aminzade, though perhaps readier in discoursing about history than Miller to focus on rules and changes in rules, holds like Miller that the causes of change lie in other matters—like class interests—rather than in the conflicts captured and exposed by a logic of rules. He undertakes to make this point by a comparative study of the rise of political parties to legitimacy in France on the one hand and in the United States on the other.