Party Governance And Party Democracy

Author : Wolfgang C. Müller,Hanne Marthe Narud
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461465881

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Party Governance and Party Democracy by Wolfgang C. Müller,Hanne Marthe Narud Pdf

​​Given the centrality of political parties in modern democracies, most research on these systems either directly address their internal functioning and activities or question their critical role. Political science has moved from describing institutions to the thorough analysis of behavior within these institutions and the interactions between them. The inevitable consequences of the maturing and institutionalization of the discipline of political science in many countries include the forming of sub-fields and specialized research communities. At the same time the number of democracies has vastly increased since the 1980s and although not each attempt at democratization was eventually successful, more heterogeneous systems with some form of party competition exist than ever before. As a consequence, the literature addressing the large issues of party democracy spreads over many research fields and has become difficult to master for individual students of party democracy and party governance. The present volume sets out to review the behavior and larger role of political parties in modern democracies. In so doing the book takes its departure from the idea that the main contribution of political parties to the working of democracy is their role as vehicles of political competition in systems of government. Consequently the focus is not merely in the internal functioning of political parties, but rather their behavior the electoral, legislative, and governmental arenas. Thus several chapters address how political parties perform within the existing institutional frameworks. One more chapter looks at the role of political parties in building and adapting these institutions. Finally, two chapters explicitly address the party contributions to democracy in established and new democracies, respectively.​​

Author : Kenneth Benoit,Michael Laver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134206186

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Party Policy in Modern Democracies by Kenneth Benoit,Michael Laver Pdf

A new and wide-ranging empirical overview of party policy in 47 modern democracies, including all of the new democracies of Eastern Europe. It updates and radically extends Policy and Party Competition (1992), which established itself as a key mainstream data source for all political scientists exploring the policy positions of political parties. This essential text is divided into three clear parts: Part I introduces the study, themes and methodology Part II deals in depth with the wide range of issues involved in estimating and analyzing the policy positions of key political actors. Part III is the key data section that identifies key policy dimensions across the 47 countries, detailing their party positions and median legislators, and is complemented by graphical representations of each party system. This book is an invaluable reference for all political scientists, particularly those interested in party policy and comparative politics.

Author : Elin Naurin,Terry J. Royed,Robert Thomson
Publisher : New Comparative Politics
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131211

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Party Mandates and Democracy by Elin Naurin,Terry J. Royed,Robert Thomson Pdf

Contrary to public opinion, election promises are often fulfilled

Author : Hans Keman,Ferdinand Müller-Rommel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415617741

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Party Government in the New Europe by Hans Keman,Ferdinand Müller-Rommel Pdf

This study presents comparative analyses of the process of party governance, from formation and duration to performance. It compares both the developments in the Eastern and Western part of Europe and uses different types of methods and data are used for comparative analysis.

Author : Frances McCall Rosenbluth,Ian Shapiro
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300232752

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Responsible Parties by Frances McCall Rosenbluth,Ian Shapiro Pdf

How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics Democracies across the world are adopting reforms to bring politics closer to the people. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates. Ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly. Many democracies now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones. Yet voters keep getting angrier. There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem, not the solution. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making make governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents' long-term interests. To revive confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.

Author : Francis G. Castles,Rudolf Wildenmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783110904000

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Visions and Realities of Party Government by Francis G. Castles,Rudolf Wildenmann Pdf

Author : Petr Kopecký,Peter Mair,Maria Spirova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Ian Budge,Hans Keman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191520884

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Parties and Democracy by Ian Budge,Hans Keman Pdf

Parties and Democracy studies the actual behaviour of some four hundred governments in twenty post-war democracies. The conclusion that parties do function in accordance with modern democratic theory will serve to put moral justifications of democracy and descriptions of the system on a firmer footing.

Author : Martin P. Wattenberg
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191528996

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Parties Without Partisans by Martin P. Wattenberg Pdf

If democracy without political parties is unthinkable, what would happen if the role of political parties if the democratic process is weakened? The ongoing debate about the vitality of political parties is also a debate about the vitality of representative democracy. Leading scholars in the field of party research assess the evidence for partisan decline or adaptation for the OECD nations in this book. It documents the broadscale erosion of the public's partisan identities in virtually all advanced industrial democracies. Partisan dealignment is diminishing involvement in electoral politics, and for those who participate it leads to more volatility in their voting choices, an openness to new political appeals, and less predictablity in their party preferences. Political parties have adapted to partisan dealignment by strengthening their internal organizational structures and partially isolating themselves from the ebbs and flows of electoral politics. Centralized, professionalized parties with short time horizons have replaced the ideologically-driven mass parties of the past. This study also examines the role of parties within government, and finds that parties have retained their traditional roles in structuring legislative action and the function of government-further evidence that party organizations are insulating themselves from the changes transforming democratic publics. Parties without Partisans is the most comprehensive cross-national study of parties in advanced industrial democracies in all of their forms — in electoral politics, as organizations, and in government. Its findings chart both how representative democracy has been transformed in the later half of the 20th Century, as well as what the new style of democratic politics is likely to look like in the 21st Century.

Author : Ian Budge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1027206059

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Parties and Democracy by Ian Budge Pdf

Political parties are the central institution through which mass representative democracies now work. They alone present voters with coherent policy alternatives in elections and effect them in government if elected. If we justify democracy in terms of its production of governments which are uniquely sensitive and responsive to popular preferences, it is through the political parties that it operates and from them that the special characteristics of the system derive How exactly do parties operate in government? There is much uncertainty about this, even on such basic questions as how coalitio.

Author : Peter Mair
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781907301780

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On Parties, Party Systems and Democracy by Peter Mair Pdf

This collection brings together some of the most significant and influential work by leading comparativist Peter Mair (1951–2011). The selection ranges from considerations on the relevance of concept formation to the study of party systems and party organisations; and from reflections on the democratic legitimacy of the European Union to the future of party democracy. Including frequently cited papers alongside lesser-known work, the writings collected in this volume attest to the broad scope and depth of Mair’s insights into comparative party politics, and the changing realities of party government. As such, they form an important and enduring contribution to the study of politics, and a fitting tribute to an inspirational and much-missed figure in the global political science community. Edited and introduced by Ingrid van Biezen, with an intellectual portrait of Peter Mair by Stefano Bartolini and Hans Daalder.

Author : Elmer Eric Schattschneider
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412830508

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Party government... by Elmer Eric Schattschneider Pdf

Author : Shaun Bowler,David M. Farrell,Richard S. Katz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015043782955

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Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government by Shaun Bowler,David M. Farrell,Richard S. Katz Pdf

Brings together empirical studies of the internal cohesiveness of political party groups in European parliaments and the leadership behavior that leads to disciplined parties in parliament, in sections on theories and definitions, the "Westminster Model," established continental European systems, newly emerging systems, and parliamentary discipline and coalition governments. Chapters originated as papers presented at a spring 1995 workshop held in Bordeaux, France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kris Deschouwer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134136391

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New Parties in Government by Kris Deschouwer Pdf

Party literature is largely focused on the rise and success of new parties and their effects on party systems and older parties. This book, on the other hand, provides a valuable and original addition to such literature by analyzing what happens to a party when it enters government for the first time. Leading contributors assess how these parties, whether old or new, change when entering government by answering a set of questions: How and why has their role changed? What are the consequences of change? What explains the evolution from principled opposition to loyal opposition and eventually to participation in the executive? Which characteristics of the parties can be held responsible? Which characteristics of the parties’ context should be brought into the picture? What have been the effects of the status change on party organization, party ideology and electoral results? Covering a wide range of European parties such as the Finish Greens, right wing parties (FN, Lega Nord and Alleanza Nazionale) and new parties in Italy , The Netherlands and Sweden to name a few; this book will be of particular interest to scholars and students concerned with party systems, political parties and comparative politics.

Author : Richard S. Katz,Peter Mair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192562012

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Democracy and the Cartelization of Political Parties by Richard S. Katz,Peter Mair Pdf

Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic governance. Both the organization of parties, and their relationships with citizens, the state, and each other have evolved since the rise of liberal democracy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Going into the 21st century, it appears that parties losing popular support, putting both parties, and potentially democracy, in peril. This book traces the evolution of parties from the model of the mass party, through the catch-all party model, to argue that by the late 20th century the principal governing parties and (and their allied smaller parties - collectively the political 'mainstream') were effectively forming a cartel, in which the form of competition might remain, and indeed even appear to intensify, while its substance was increasingly hollowed out. The spoils of office were increasingly shared rather than restricted to the temporary winners; contentious policy questions were kept off the political agenda, and competition shifted from large questions of policy to minor questions of managerial competence. To support this cartel, the internal arrangements of parties changed to privilege the party in public office over the party on the ground. The unintended consequence has been to stimulate the rise of extra-cartel challengers to these cozy arrangements in the form of anti-party-system parties and populist oppositions on the left, but especially on the right. 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 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.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.