[PDF] Party In Power eBook

Author : Haruhiro Fukui
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520369017

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Author : Frances Rosenbluth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300241054

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How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places 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. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making have made governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents’ long-term interests. They argue that to restore confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.

Author : Mark Wahlgren Summers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807863750

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Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. In Party Games, Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the full story and admires much of the political carnival, but he adds a cautionary note about the dark recesses: vote-buying, election-rigging, blackguarding, news suppression, and violence. Summers also points out that hardball politics and third-party challenges helped make the parties more responsive. Ballyhoo did not replace government action. In order to maintain power, major parties not only rigged the system but also gave dissidents part of what they wanted. The persistence of a two-party system, Summers concludes, resulted from its adaptability, as well as its ruthlessness. Even the reform of political abuses was shaped to fit the needs of the real owners of the political system--the politicians themselves.

Author : Marty Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226112381

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Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that—such unusually competitive cases notwithstanding—people, rather than parties, should and do control presidential nominations. But for the past several decades, The Party Decides shows, unelected insiders in both major parties have effectively selected candidates long before citizens reached the ballot box. Tracing the evolution of presidential nominations since the 1790s, this volume demonstrates how party insiders have sought since America’s founding to control nominations as a means of getting what they want from government. Contrary to the common view that the party reforms of the 1970s gave voters more power, the authors contend that the most consequential contests remain the candidates’ fights for prominent endorsements and the support of various interest groups and state party leaders. These invisible primaries produce frontrunners long before most voters start paying attention, profoundly influencing final election outcomes and investing parties with far more nominating power than is generally recognized.

Author : Verlan Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108476791

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This groundbreaking book presents a new understanding of ideological change. It shows how and why America's political parties have evolved.

Author : Kris Deschouwer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134136404

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This volume is a unique exploration of European political parties making the move towards government for the first time.

Author : Guoguang Wu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107082021

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The first analysis of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, more commonly known as the Party Congress. Drawing from new documentary evidence, Guoguang Wu examines the operation of the highest decision-making body in China's single ruling party, developing a theory of authoritarian legitimization that integrates informal politics with institutions.

Author : Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN :

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This text traces the history of the Malay rulers from the late colonial period to the first decade of the 21st century, considering the implications of the decline of the Malay rulers under colonial rule, the role of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya in defining postwar Malay identity.