Party Governance and Party Democracy - 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 Party Governance and Party Democracy write by Wolfgang C. Müller. This book was released on 2013-05-15. Party Governance and Party Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Party Government
Party 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 Party Government write by Elmer Eric Schattschneider. This book was released on 1977-04-14. Party Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Party and Government
Party and 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 Party and Government write by Jean Blondel. This book was released on 2016-07-27. Party and Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Party and Government is an eleven-country study of the relationship between the governments of liberal democracies, mainly from Western Europe, but also including the United States and India, and the parties which support these governments. It examines this relationship at the three levels at which governments and parties connect: appointments, policy-making, and patronage. The emphasis is on a two-way relationship: parties influence governments but governments also influence parties. The extent and the direction of this influence varies from country to country. In some cases, governments and parties are almost autonomous from each other, as in the United States; in other cases, on the contrary, there is considerable power of one over the other: sometimes the party dominates, sometimes the government.
Party Mandates and Democracy
Party Mandates and Democracy - 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 Party Mandates and Democracy write by Elin Naurin. This book was released on 2019-02-28. Party Mandates and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When people discuss politics, they often mention the promises politicians make during election campaigns. Promises raise hopes that positive policy changes are possible, but people are generally skeptical of these promises. Party Mandates and Democracy reveals the extent to and conditions under which governments fulfill party promises during election campaigns. Contrary to conventional wisdom a majority of pledges—sometimes a large majority—are acted upon in most countries, most of the time. The fulfillment of parties’ election pledges is an essential part of the democratic process. This book is the first major, genuinely comparative study of promises across a broad range of countries and elections, including the United States, Canada, nine Western European countries, and Bulgaria. The book thus adds to the body of literature on the variety of outcomes stemming from alternative democratic institutions.
Responsible Parties
Responsible 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 Responsible Parties write by Frances Rosenbluth. This book was released on 2018-10-02. Responsible Parties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
