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Party Reform - The Causes, Challenges, and Consequences of Organizational Change (Hardcover)
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Party Reform - The Causes, Challenges, and Consequences of Organizational Change (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Politics
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Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party
organization. The book provides a novel perspective in party
scholarship and develops the concept of 'reform' as distinct from
evolutionary and incremental processes of party change. As an
outcome, reform is captured in deliberate and often very public
changes to parties' organizational rules and processes. As a
process, it offers a party the opportunity to 're-brand' and
publicly alter its image, to emphasize certain strategic priorities
over others, and to alter relationships of power within the party.
Analyzing the last ten years of party reform across a handful of
established democracies including Australia, the United Kingdom,
Canada and Germany, the book examines what motivates political
parties to undertake organizational reforms and how they go about
this process. Party Reform reveals how parties' perceptions of the
social trends in which they operate shape reform agendas, and how
this relates to competitive demands and pressures from within the
party for organizational change. In addition to the motivations for
reform, the book is equally concerned with the process of reform.
The book demonstrates that declining party memberships have had a
fundamental effect on the way in which political parties 'sell'
organizational reform: as part of a broader rhetoric of
democratization, of re-engagement, and of modernization delivered
to diverse audiences - both internal and external to the party. The
chapters focus particularly on four key reform initiatives that
begin to blur the traditional boundaries of party: the introduction
of primaries, the changing meaning of party membership,
issues-based online policy development, and community organizing
campaigns. Using these cutting-edge developments as primary
examples, this book provides a framework for understanding why, and
how, reforms occur, and what the consequences might be - in terms
of how we think about modern political parties as vehicles for
participation and representation. Comparative Politics is a series
for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that
deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope,
books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative
analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published
in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.
For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by
Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Universite libre
de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for
the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow,
Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of
Houston.
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