Party And Parish Pump

Author : R. Carty
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889208643

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Party and Parish Pump by R. Carty Pdf

“My attention was drawn to Ireland by footnotes,” writes the author. “Over and over again the literature of comparative politics noted simply ‘except in Ireland’.... The question that puzzled me was, Why should this be so?” Professor Carty’s answers to the question appear in this detailed study that sheds new light on the question of establishing democratic politics after a war of independence, on the impact of electoral laws on party competition, on the social bases of political competition, and on the way political machines work in modern democracies. As a case study the book also analyzes the peculiarly conservative syndrome into which Irish politics has fallen. Carty concludes that political institutions and the activities of politicians make a considerable difference to the organization and conduct of public life. The book will interest students of comparative politics, history, and political sociology, as well as those concerned with the shape and direction of society and politics in contemporary Ireland.

Author : R. Kenneth Carty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X001185028

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Electoral Politics in Ireland by R. Kenneth Carty Pdf

Author : C. Gordon Glover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1412652420

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Parish Pump by C. Gordon Glover Pdf

Author : Amir Abedi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134363681

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Anti-Political Establishment Parties by Amir Abedi Pdf

Recent electoral success of the Freedom Party in Austria, List Pim Fortuyn in The Netherlands, the People's Party in Denmark and the National Front in France have demonstrated the appeal of parties that challenge the political establishment. This book seeks to explain why these parties have achieved a political breakthrough, but unlike other studies in the area does not concentrate on only one type of party. Instead it attempts to determine preconditions for the success of anti-political establishment parties in general, avoiding any time specific or ideology specific explanations.

Author : Howard Rae Penniman,Brian Farrell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822307863

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Ireland at the Polls, 1981, 1982, and 1987 by Howard Rae Penniman,Brian Farrell Pdf

Ireland at the Polls, 1981, 1982, and 1987: A Study of four General Elections is another in the series of national election studies prepared by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). Books in the series include volumes on some thirty national democratic elections around the world. Distinguished foreign and American scholars have contributed to the studies.

Author : Nick Leonen
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781554881338

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Citizenship and Democracy by Nick Leonen Pdf

This book is part of the Towards the New Millennium Series, featuring the works of thoughtful Canadians who are profoundly interested in the future of Canada and the world. Most democracies do not use Canada’s "first past the post" voting system. To give a party more seats than its share of the popular vote warrants is deemed undemocratic by most. Such democracies use proportional representation to ensure a party’s seat-share does not exceed its vote-share. Former MLA, Nick Loenen, examines what proportional representation can do for Canadian politics. He finds that a change to proportional representation holds the potential to involve citizens more meaningfully and give political parties a more significant policy development role. It would also move power from the prime minister’s office to Parliament, and from the premiers to provincial legislatures, shifting the focus in politics from leaders, style and images, to parties, principles and platforms. Instead of the adversarial politics of confrontation, which aim to exclude and eliminate political opponents, proportional representation holds promise for a consensual, cooperative style of governing that includes a broad spectrum of political diversity. The book also counters many popular misconceptions about proportional representation. It traces Canada’s most intractable political problems such as national unity, high taxation, government over-spending, excessive party discipline, the concentration of power in our leaders, and our peculiar archaic voting system. The end product is the most detailed analysis of the effects of proportional representation on Canadian politics ever published.

Author : Michael Gallagher,Michael Marsh,Theresa Reidy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030664053

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How Ireland Voted 2020 by Michael Gallagher,Michael Marsh,Theresa Reidy Pdf

This book is the 9th volume in the established How Ireland Voted series and provides the definitive story of Ireland’s mould-breaking 2020 election. For the first time ever, Sinn Féin won the most votes, the previously dominant parties shrank to a fraction of their former strengths, and the government to emerge was a coalition between previously irreconcilable enemies. For these reasons, the election marks the end of an era in Irish politics. This book analyses the course of the campaign, the parties’ gains and losses, and the impact of issues, especially the role of Brexit. Voting behaviour is explored in depth, with examination of the role of issues and discussion of the role of social cleavages such as class, age and education. The process by which the government was put together over a period of nearly five months is traced through in-depth interviews with participants. And six candidates who contested Election 2020 give first-hand reports of their campaigns.

Author : R. Kenneth Carty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192674388

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The Government Party by R. Kenneth Carty Pdf

Democracy thrives on vigorous competition between political parties. However, in several established democracies one party manages to dominate national politics for decades at a time, seemingly creating a democratic one-party unnatural democracy. This book examines five such countries - Canada, Ireland, India, Japan, Italy - to understand what kind of party comes to dominate democratic competition, and how and why they do so. In different countries with different political challenges, an analysis of their 'Government Parties' reveals their common relationship with the origins and operations of the states they dominate, and the nation- and/or state-building challenges they face. Democratic dominance cannot last forever; how a government party responds to the seemingly inevitable decline of long-term support defines the prospects for its unnatural democracy. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterized by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit www.ecprnet.eu The series is edited by Susan Scarrow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston, and Jonathan Slapin, Professor of Political Institutions and European Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.

Author : Susan E. Scarrow
Publisher : Comparative Politics
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199661862

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Beyond Party Members by Susan E. Scarrow Pdf

This text offers a broad overview of an important and ongoing transformation in relations between political parties and their closest supporters. It focuses on established parliamentary democracies, showing how the changing nature of party membership is affecting how political parties define themselves and the choices presented to voters.

Author : Sean McGraw,Eoin O'Malley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351389945

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One Party Dominance by Sean McGraw,Eoin O'Malley Pdf

Fianna Fáil was for most of the 20th century the democratic world’s most successful political party. It dominated the politics of Ireland from 1932, when it first took power, until 2011 when it became a prominent electoral victim of the Great Recession. This book provides original research that explains how Fianna Fáil became dominant and managed its coalitions of support to maintain that position for eight decades. It gathers prominent political scientists who focus on a variety of factors including its ideological flexibility, control of state resources and the venue for decision making, the party’s leadership, its organisation and communications strategies. In addition the book takes a comparative approach to understanding the position of dominant parties in democratic countries, and uses empirical data to understand the sources of its support and decline. It is a book that will be of interest not only to scholars of Ireland, but also to those who wish to understand the sources of power of dominant political parties and the impact of the Great Recession on democratic politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Irish Political Studies.

Author : Philip M. Williams,David Goldey,Martin Harrison
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521096081

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French Politicians and Elections 1951-1969 by Philip M. Williams,David Goldey,Martin Harrison Pdf

A series of essays, originally published in 1970, surveying French elections in the Fourth and Fifth Republics.

Author : Peter Mair,Gordon Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136289972

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Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe by Peter Mair,Gordon Smith Pdf

Published in the year 1990, Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe is a valuable contribution to the field of Politics.

Author : Petr Kopecký,Peter Mair,Maria Spirova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199599370

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Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies by Petr Kopecký,Peter Mair,Maria Spirova Pdf

Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies brings together insights from the worlds of party politics and public administration in order to analyze the role of political parties in public appointments across contemporary Europe. Based on an extensive new data gathered through expert interviews in fifteen European countries, this book offers the first systematic comparative assessment of the scale of party patronage and its role in sustaining modern party governments. Among the key findings are: First, patronage appointments tend to be increasingly dominated by the party in public office rather than being used or controlled by the party organization outside parliament. Second, rather than using appointments as rewards, as used to be the case in more clientelistic systems in the past, parties are now more likely to emphasize appointments that can help them to manage the infrastructure of government and the state. In this way patronage becomes an organizational rather than an electoral resource. Third, patronage appointments are increasingly sourced from channels outside of the party, thus helping to make parties look increasingly like network organizations, primarily constituted by their leaders and their personal and political hinterlands. Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr The Comparative Politics series is edited by Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Kenneth Carty, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, and Professor Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Institute of Political Science, Philipps University, Marburg.

Author : Paul Lewis,Paul Webb
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004473805

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Pan-European Perspectives on Party Politics by Paul Lewis,Paul Webb Pdf

In this book, an international team of specialists reflects, more than a dozen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, on the implications of that momentous conjuncture for the study of party politics in Europe. In particular, the authors and editors seek to address two inter-connected questions: To what extent is there evidence of convergence in patterns of party politics across Eastern and Western Europe? And how far has the theory of parties and party systems coped with the emergence of democratic politics in Eastern Europe? In a wideranging and stimulating set of essays, these issues are confronted in respect of themes such as the impact of institutional contexts like electoral systems and presidentialism, the evolving nature of cleavage structures, party organizational developments, and intra-party factionalism. This book will make a significant addition to any course reading list on comparative and party politics.

Author : Richard S Katz,Peter Mair
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781446265079

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How Parties Organize by Richard S Katz,Peter Mair Pdf

This book takes a close look inside political parties, bringing together the findings of an international team of leading scholars. Building on a unique set of cross-national data on party organizations, the contributors set out to explain how parties organize, how they have changed and how they have adapted to the changing political and organizational circumstances in which they find themselves. The contributors are recognized authorities on the party systems of their countries, and have all been involved in gathering data on party membership, party finance and the internal structure of power. They add to the analysis of these original data an expert knowledge of the wider political patterns in their countries, and thus provide insight into the development of parties and party systems from the perspective of party organizations themselves. How Parties Organize offers the most systematic and comparable analysis of party organization in contemporary Europe and the United States.