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Political parties, diminished subtypes, and democracy
, 2020There is a resurgence of interest in political parties. This resurgent interest embraces a minimalist definition of political parties, according to which any group that competes in elections and receives a handful of votes qualifies as a party.
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Female leaders and citizens' perceptions of political parties
Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties, 2019Do female leaders affect voters' perceptions of political parties' placement on the left-right spectrum? Using public opinion data on 269 parties in 35 countries between 1976 and 2016, I show that female-led parties are perceived as more moderate than ...
Diana Z. O’Brien
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Democracy and the Cartelization of Political Parties
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018Political 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 ...
R. Katz, P. Mair
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Social Movements in Interaction with Political Parties
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, 2018In this chapter, we review the literature on social-movements and political parties interactions. We propose a research agenda that conceptualizes and empirically studies how movement-party interactions vary quantitatively and qualitatively under ...
Swen Hutter, H. Kriesi, J. Lorenzini
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1985
British politics is party politics which takes place in what is fundamentally a two-party system. In this chapter, therefore, we shall focus principally upon the Conservative and Labour parties, as they have been the two most significant political forces, at any rate since the Second World War.
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British politics is party politics which takes place in what is fundamentally a two-party system. In this chapter, therefore, we shall focus principally upon the Conservative and Labour parties, as they have been the two most significant political forces, at any rate since the Second World War.
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Political Parties and Party Politics
2006This chapter examines the Europeanization of British party politics. It is within the domain of party politics that debates about the EU have often been at their most intense, yet, compared to particular policy areas, party politics tend not to be the subject of analyses of Europeanization. This is surprising because, as Hix (2005: 180) points out, ‘EU
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Political Leaders Beyond Party Politics
2018This book studies party leaders from selection to post-presidency. Based on data covering a large set of Western countries, and focusing on the trends of personalisation of politics, the volume is one of the first empirical investigations into how party leaders are elected, how long they stay in office, and whether they enter and guide democratic ...
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Abstract This chapter applies the alignment framework to regulations of political parties. Parties are vitally important entities, the very building blocks of mass democracy. Nevertheless, alignment within parties has no democratic value.
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