Parties, Governments and Elites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parties, Governments and Elites write by Philipp Harfst. This book was released on 2017-04-26. Parties, Governments and Elites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Parties, governments and elites are at the core of the study of democracy. The traditional view is that parties as collective actors play a paramount role in the democratic process. However, this classical perspective has been challenged by political actors, observers of modern democracy as well as political scientists. Modern political parties assume different roles, contemporary leaders can more heavily influence politics, governments face new constraints and new collective bodies continue to form, propose new ways of participation and policy making, and attract citizens and activists. In the light of these observations, the comparative study of democracy faces a number of important and still largely unsolved questions that the present volume will address.
Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government
Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government write by Carl Dahlström. This book was released on 2015-08-11. Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To a large extent, elite politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen hold the fortunes of their societies in their hands. This edited volume describes how formal and informal institutions affect elite behaviour, which in turn affects corruption and the quality of government.
Why Regional Parties?
Why Regional Parties? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Regional Parties? write by Adam Ziegfeld. This book was released on 2016-02-19. Why Regional Parties? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. In Why Regional Parties?, Professor Adam Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that regional parties in India are electorally successful because they harness popular grievances and benefit from strong regional identities. He draws on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative evidence from over eighteen months of field research to demonstrate that regional parties are, in actuality, successful because they represent expedient options for office-seeking politicians. By focusing on clientelism, coalition government, and state-level factional alignments, Ziegfeld explains why politicians in India find membership in a regional party appealing. He therefore accounts for the remarkable success of India's regional parties and, in doing so, outlines how party systems take root and evolve in democracies where patronage, vote buying, and machine politics are common.
The Contested Status of Political Elites
The Contested Status of Political Elites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Contested Status of Political Elites write by Lars Vogel. This book was released on 2018-07-17. The Contested Status of Political Elites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary Western societies are witnessing ground-breaking social, economic and political changes at an accelerating pace. These changes are challenging the way democracy works and the role that political elites play in this system of government. Using a theoretical and empirical approach, this volume argues that political elites are urged to develop new strategies in order to achieve interest aggregation, to safeguard collective action, and to maintain elite autonomy and stability. The adaptive capacities of political elites are assessed through case studies, comparative and longitudinal analyses of their social structure, their recruitment patterns, and their attitudes. The book includes contributions from reputable scholars in the field of elite research and specialists on individual political systems across Europe and the US. It provides an analytical framework demonstrating that political elites are inevitable and potentially able to respond successfully to varying challenges. The book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political elites, democracy, comparative politics, political participation and European Politics.
New Paths for Selecting Political Elites
New Paths for Selecting Political Elites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Paths for Selecting Political Elites write by Giulia Sandri. This book was released on 2021-05-15. New Paths for Selecting Political Elites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a cross-country study of the consequences of the expansion of intra-party democracy, the trend towards more inclusive methods of selection for party candidates and leaders, and the impact of these on political elites in terms of sociopolitical profile and patterns of careers. It explores the link between political organizations and political elites, by studying the role of parties in parliamentary and political selection and its impact on the political leadership appointed. Putting an emphasis on primary elections, it analyses the party elites that emerge from those selection processes and those democratized organizational settings. It focuses not only on the analysis of the processes through which party elites are selected and the consequences at the level of the party but also at the level of party elites themselves, i.e. what impact party primaries have on the characteristics parties’ candidates and leaders. The book offers a theoretical, comparative, and empirical account of the internal electoral processes of parties and their impact on political recruitment. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political elites, political parties and party systems, electoral politics, democracy, populism, and leadership, and more broadly to comparative politics.
