Political parties have only recently become a subject of
investigation in normative political theory. Parties have
traditionally been studied by political scientists in their
organizational features and in relation to the analysis of related
topics such as party systems and electoral systems. Little
attention, however, was paid until recently to the normative
assumptions that underlie partisanship and party politics. Are
parties desirable for democratic politics? How should liberal
democracies deal with extremist and/or anti-democratic parties? Do
religious parties undermine the secular distinction between
religion and politics and is that bad for liberal democracies?
These are only some of the many questions that political theorists
had left unanswered for a long time.
The chapters in this collection aim to provide a twofold
contribution to the normative analysis of partisanship. On the one
hand, they aim to offer a first much needed state of the art of the
existing research in this area. Many of the contributors have
already done extensive research on partisanship and their chapters
partly reflect their research expertise and individual approaches
to this topic. On the other hand, all chapters move beyond the
authors existing work and represent significant additions to the
normative literature on partisanship, thus setting the standards
for future research in this area.
This book was published as a special issue of "Critical Review
of International Social and Political Philosophy.""
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