Party Members And Activists

Author : Emilie van Haute
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317524314
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Party Members and Activists written by Emilie van Haute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Membership of political parties is diverse. Not everyone participates and those who do, do not participate in the same way. This book engages with the debate over the significance and future of political parties as membership organisations and presents the first broad comparative analysis of party membership and activism. It is based on membership surveys which have been administered, gathered and collated by a group of prominent party scholars from across Europe, Canada and Israel. Utilizing this rich data source together with the insights of party scholars, the book investigates what party membership means in advanced industrial democracies. In doing so, it provides a clearer picture of who joins political parties, why they do it, the character of their political activism, how they engage with their parties, and what opinions they hold. This text will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative politics, particularly to those interested in representation, participation, political parties and elections.

Author : Emilie van Haute
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317524322
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Party Members and Activists written by Emilie van Haute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Membership of political parties is diverse. Not everyone participates and those who do, do not participate in the same way. This book engages with the debate over the significance and future of political parties as membership organisations and presents the first broad comparative analysis of party membership and activism. It is based on membership surveys which have been administered, gathered and collated by a group of prominent party scholars from across Europe, Canada and Israel. Utilizing this rich data source together with the insights of party scholars, the book investigates what party membership means in advanced industrial democracies. In doing so, it provides a clearer picture of who joins political parties, why they do it, the character of their political activism, how they engage with their parties, and what opinions they hold. This text will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative politics, particularly to those interested in representation, participation, political parties and elections.

Author : Robin T. Pettitt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030478424
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recruiting and Retaining Party Activists written by Robin T. Pettitt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how experienced party organisers in the UK work to recruit and to retain party activists for local campaigning. Local door-to-door campaigning is widely regarded as being a key element in a successful election campaign. However, for door-to-door campaigning to work, a large number of volunteer activists are required. The question then is: How can parties identify, recruit and retain such volunteer activists? Based on interviews with highly experienced campaigners, original party documents, the wider campaigning and volunteering literature, numerous informal conversations and the author’s own experience of local campaigning over a 20 year period, this book provides an answer to that question. It shows how potential activists are identified, encouraged to become active and supported through their initial encounter with local campaigning. The author also shows how local parties can encourage activists to remain active by creating a ‘retention enhancing campaigning environment’ and what that involves.

Author : Nicole F. Watts
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800828
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Activists in Office written by Nicole F. Watts and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of Kurdish politician-activists have been prosecuted and imprisoned, and hundreds have been murdered for espousing Kurdish political and cultural rights over the past twenty years. The risks are high, yet Pro-Kurdish political parties have made significant gains, as resources afforded by the political system have allowed them to challenge state rhetoric and policies to exercise power at the municipal level, which has helped legitimize and advance the pro-Kurdish movement. Activists in Office examines how these parties, while sharing many of the goals expressed by armed Kurdish groups, are using the legal political system to promote their highly contentious Kurdish national agenda in the face of a violent, repressive state. Nicole F. Watts sheds light not only on the particular situation of Kurds in Turkey, but also on the challenges, risks, and potential benefits for comparable movements operating in less-than-fully democratic contexts. The book is a result of more than ten years of research conducted in Turkey and in Europe, and it draws on a wide array of sources, including Turkish electoral data, memoirs, court records, and interviews.

Author : Charles D. Hadley
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499999
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Party Activists in Southern Politics written by Charles D. Hadley and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The implications of these and other significant realignments - especially as reflected among grassroots activists in the two major parties - are the focus of this valuable new book.

Author : Margaret E. Keck
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080147129X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Activists beyond Borders written by Margaret E. Keck and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Activists beyond Borders, Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant impact in human rights, especially in Latin America, and advocacy networks have strongly influenced environmental politics as well. The authors also examine the emergence of an international campaign around violence against women.

Author : Charles Hadley
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern State Party Organizations and Activists written by Charles Hadley and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-02-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume describes and analyzes grassroots political party organizations in the South. Based upon surveys of county political party committee activists, conducted for the Southern Grassroots Party Activists Project and funded by the National Science Foundation, the work examines each of the 11 Southern states. Each chapter in the book, written by a scholar from the particular state, describes the general political history of that state over the 1954-1992 period, and then details state party organizations and activists—activists' backgrounds, politics, motivations for party activism, and party organization maintenance. The data and analysis presented depict political changes in the South, at both the state and national level, and provide for fascinating comparisons from state to state in the solid South.

Author : Hahrie Han
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199336776
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Organizations Develop Activists written by Hahrie Han and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some civic associations better than others at getting-and keeping-people involved in activism? Using in-person observations, surveys, and field experiments, this book compares and describes contemporary models for engaging activists to show the effectiveness of one that combine political activism with transformative personal and collective growth.

Author : James A. Thurber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107114160
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Gridlock written by James A. Thurber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Gridlock is a comprehensive analysis of polarization encompassing national and state politics, voters, elites, activists, the media, and the three branches of government.

Author : Paul Whiteley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472106202
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High-intensity Participation written by Paul Whiteley and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an explanation for political activism and general political participation