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Author : Lawrence Ezrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199572526
Linking Citizens and Parties highlights the pathways through which citizens' political preferences are expressed by their political parties.
Author : Lawrence Ezrow
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9780191722752
This text addresses familiar questions about political representation. These fundamental questions are paired with the empirical observation of Western European democracies during the last 30 years. The study highlights the pathways through which citizens' political preferences are expressed by their political parties.
Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191618934
Is the party over? Parties are the central institutions of representative democracy, but critics increasingly claim that parties are failing to perform their democratic functions. This book assembles unprecedented cross-national evidence to assess how parties link the individual citizen to the formation of governments and then to government policies. Using the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems and other recent cross-national data, the authors examine the workings of this party linkage process across established and new democracies. Political parties still dominate the electoral process in shaping the discourse of campaigns, the selection of candidates, and mobilizing citizens to vote. Equally striking, parties link citizen preferences to the choice of representatives, with strong congruence between voter and party Left/Right positions. These preferences are then translated in the formation of coalition governments and their policies. The authors argue that the critics of parties have overlooked the ability of political parties to adapt to changing conditions in order to perform their crucial linkage functions. As the context of politics and societies have changed, so too have political parties. Political Parties and Democratic Linkage argues that the process of party government is alive and well in most contemporary democracies.
Author : Aldo F. Ponce
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political culture
ISBN :
My dissertation examines how and why political parties and ultimately party systems become programmatic. I develop a model that shows how the combination of relatively low party-system fragmentation and low electoral volatility, along with high legislative capabilities, creates incentives for legislative parties to specialize consistently in relatively more policy areas in the legislature (to obtain ownership of these issues). Under these circumstances, political parties participate in legislative activities (e.g., bill initiation) to more actively signal constituencies and potential supporters about their policy preferences and achieve ownership of policy issues with the goal of enhancing electoral support in future elections. Greater specialization contributes to the development of knowledge about party programmatic (policy) strengths and helps to reinforce the linkages between political parties and their supporters. To test this theory, my dissertation examines a variety of data, including several years of bill initiation and surveys. From this analysis, I conclude that in addition to the well-known functions attributed to legislative parties for solving social choice and collective action problems, legislative parties can also help to solve two other social problems informational (imperfect information) and credibility problems that can enhance accountability and political representation in a polity. As they specialize more, parties can help solve these social problems more effectively.
Author : Martin R. Saiz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429721676
Analyzes relations between political party systems and local communities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and other nations. This book addresses an almost completely neglected branch of community politics: the comparative analysis of local political systems. Accordingly, Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective opens new views to a variety of relations between political systems and local communities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, and other nations. The authors unite specific national case studies with an original theoretical framework, resulting in an anthology with uncommon coherency. Theoretical generalizations are tested with cross-national data; each case study, in turn, demonstrates a localized version of the larger framework, using specific historical political outcomes as examples. This book addresses an almost completely neglected branch of community politics: the comparative analysis of local political systems. Accordingly, Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective opens new views to a variety of relations between political systems and local communities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, and other nations. The authors unite specific national case studies with an original theoretical framework, resulting in an anthology with uncommon coherency. Theoretical generalizations are tested with cross-national data; each case study, in turn, demonstrates a localized version of the larger framework, using specific historical political outcomes as examples. Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective argues that local political parties should be understood as Janus-faced: components of nationally encompassing organizations on the one hand, and specific actors in community politics on the other. As such, local parties necessarily act as the primary democratic institutions that link ordinary citizens to local governmental institutions, and transitively to the national political system. By linking ordinary citizens and the most basic local organizations with national politics, Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective adds significantly to the collective understanding of the nature and status of local parties in mature and developing democracies
Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1544351968
"The book’s combined focus on parties as institutions and systems, alongside political attitudes and behaviors, is why I use it...I have yet to find another text that accomplishes this." —Meredith Conroy, California State University, San Bernardino Now, more than ever, people drive the democratic process. What people think of their government and its leaders, how (or whether) they vote, and what they do or say about a host of political issues greatly affect the further strengthening or erosion of democracy and democratic ideals. This fully updated, shorter Seventh Edition of Citizen Politics continues to offer the only truly comparative study of political attitudes and behavior in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. In addition to its comprehensive, thematic examination of political values, political activity, voting, and public images of government within a cross-national context, the updated edition of this bestseller explores how cultural issues, populism, Trump and far right parties are reshaping politics in contemporary democracies. All chapters have been updated with the latest research and empirical evidence. Further, Dalton includes recent research on citizens’ political behavior in USA, Britain, France, and Germany, as well as new evidence from national election studies in USA 2016, Britain 2017, France 2017, and Germany 2017.
Author : Lawrence S. Rothenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521425773
Lawrence Rothenberg examines some of the most elusive aspects of interest group operations through an in-depth study of one of the largest interest groups in Washington, Common Cause. In developing what might be called a membership theory, he asks such questions as: why do members join a group? Who stays and who leaves and why? What is the nature of the relationships among the activists, the group leaders and the rank-and-file members? How do these relationships shape the lobbying policies of the group? How is the lobbying impact of a group related to the nature of its membership? In addition, Rothenberg analyses the impact the lobbying efforts of Common Cause have had through case studies of the Congressional vote on the MX missile system and of the agenda setting behind the campaign finance reform bill.
Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1544351798
Now, more than ever, people drive the democratic process. What people think of their government and its leaders, how (or whether) they vote, and what they do or say about a host of political issues greatly affect the further strengthening or erosion of democracy and democratic ideals. This fully updated, shorter Seventh Edition of Citizen Politics continues to offer the only truly comparative study of political attitudes and behavior in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. In addition to its comprehensive, thematic examination of political values, political activity, voting, and public images of government within a cross-national context, the updated edition of this bestseller explores how cultural issues, populism, Trump and far right parties are reshaping politics in contemporary democracies. All chapters have been updated with the latest research and empirical evidence. Further, Dalton includes recent research on citizens’ political behavior in USA, Britain, France, and Germany, as well as new evidence from national election studies in USA 2016, Britain 2017, France 2017, and Germany 2017.
Author : Andrea Rommele
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2005-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Since its release in 1980, Kay Lawson's Political Parties and Linkage: A Comparative Perspective has become a classic text in the field of political science. In her groundbreaking work Lawson approaches linkage from an angle left unexplored by her predecessors. Her thinking filled in the systematic and theoretical void by envisioning political parties as the link between citizens and policy makers. This collection of essays by leading political scientists reflects on Lawson's concept of linkage, its theory, and its application over the last quarter century. The work is divided into two sections, the first covers linkage's impact on party research and the second focuses on its application in general political science. The first looks at such topics as the evolution and intellectual development of Lawson's concept through social actors, policy responsiveness, and multi-layer politics. The second handles issues like globalization, the relation of state and society, the European Union and it's proposed constitutional reform, and the cross-cultural significance of linkage in such countries as India. The book concludes with an illuminating chapter by Lawson that responds to the featured themes and explains her current views on linkage and democracy.
Author : Alan Ware
Publisher : Cambridge, UK : Polity Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This is a major analysis of the role of political parties in the development and promotion of democracy. Ware offers a highly original discussion of this under-examined area.