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Political Parties and Democratic Linkage - How Parties Organize Democracy (Hardcover)
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Political Parties and Democratic Linkage - How Parties Organize Democracy (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
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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.
Political Parties and Democratic Linkage 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 DemocraticLinkage argues that the process of
party government is alive and well in most contemporary
democracies.
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