ABSTRACT
The equality of political participation is growing much more rapidly than is the "art of associating together." Rapid increases in mobilization and participation, the principal political aspects of modernization, undermine political institutions. The strength of political organizations and procedures varies with their scope of support and their level of institutionalization. The more adaptable an organization or procedure is, the more highly institutionalized it is; the less adaptable and more rigid it is, the lower its level of institutionalization. Adaptability is an acquired organizational characteristic. It is, in a rough sense, a function of environmental challenge and age. Complexity may involve both multiplication of organizational subunits, hierarchically and functionally, and differentiation of separate types of organizational subunits. The Communists actively attempt to expand political partipication. Communist doctrine thus recognizes the need to balance mobilization and organization and stresses the party as the key to political stability.
