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Political Parties and Democratic Linkage - How Parties Organize Democracy (Paperback)
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Political Parties and Democratic Linkage - How Parties Organize Democracy (Paperback)
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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. 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.
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