Linking Citizens And Parties

Author : Lawrence Ezrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199572526
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linking Citizens and Parties written by Lawrence Ezrow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking Citizens and Parties highlights the pathways through which citizens' political preferences are expressed by their political parties.

Author : Lawrence Ezrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191722752
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linking Citizens and Parties written by Lawrence Ezrow and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199599351
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Parties and Democratic Linkage written by Russell J. Dalton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Parties and Democratic Linkage examines how political parties ensure the functioning of the democratic process in contemporary societies. Based on unprecedented cross-national data, the authors find that the process of party government is still alive and well in most contemporary democracies.

Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191618934
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Parties and Democratic Linkage written by Russell J. Dalton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linking Citizens and Parties written by Aldo F. Ponce and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0429721676
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Parties In Political And Organizational Perspective written by Martin R. Saiz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Saskia P. Ruth-Lovell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quality of Representation in Latin America: Linking Citizens with Political Parties written by Saskia P. Ruth-Lovell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea Rommele
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Parties and Political Systems written by Andrea Rommele and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book The Quality of Representation in Latin America: Linking Citizens with Political Parties written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Collette Marie Niland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Who Links written by Collette Marie Niland and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: