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Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has
shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the
question of how different patterns of growth - equal or unequal -
shape regime change. This book offers a new theory of the
historical relationship between economic modernization and the
emergence of democracy on a global scale, focusing on the effects
of land and income inequality. Contrary to most mainstream
arguments, Ben W. Ansell and David J. Samuels suggest that
democracy is more likely to emerge when rising, yet politically
disenfranchised, groups demand more influence because they have
more to lose, rather than when threats of redistribution to elite
interests are low.
This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the
separation of powers on party politics. Conventional political
science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible without
political parties, because parties fulfill all the key functions of
democratic governance. They nominate candidates, coordinate
campaigns, aggregate interests, formulate and implement policy, and
manage government power. When scholars first asserted the essential
connection between parties and democracy, most of the world s
democracies were parliamentary. Yet by the dawn of the twenty-first
century, most democracies had directly elected presidents. Given
this, if parties are truly critical to democracy, then a systematic
understanding of how the separation of powers shapes parties is
long overdue. David J. Samuels and Matthew S. Shugart provide a
theoretical framework for analyzing variation in the relationships
among presidents, parties, and prime ministers across the world s
democracies, revealing the important ways that the separation of
powers alters party organization and behavior thereby changing the
nature of democratic representation and accountability.
Conventional wisdom suggests that partisanship has little impact on
voter behavior in Brazil; what matters most is pork-barreling,
incumbent performance, and candidates' charisma. This book shows
that soon after redemocratization in the 1980s, over half of
Brazilian voters expressed either a strong affinity or antipathy
for or against a particular political party. In particular, that
the contours of positive and negative partisanship in Brazil have
mainly been shaped by how people feel about one party - the
Workers' Party (PT). Voter behavior in Brazil has largely been
structured around sentiment for or against this one party, and not
any of Brazil's many others. The authors show how the PT managed to
successfully cultivate widespread partisanship in a difficult
environment, and also explain the emergence of anti-PT attitudes.
They then reveal how positive and negative partisanship shape
voters' attitudes about politics and policy, and how they shape
their choices in the ballot booth.
Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has
shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the
question of how different patterns of growth - equal or unequal -
shape regime change. This book offers a new theory of the
historical relationship between economic modernization and the
emergence of democracy on a global scale, focusing on the effects
of land and income inequality. Contrary to most mainstream
arguments, Ben W. Ansell and David J. Samuels suggest that
democracy is more likely to emerge when rising, yet politically
disenfranchised, groups demand more influence because they have
more to lose, rather than when threats of redistribution to elite
interests are low.
This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the
separation of powers on party politics. Conventional political
science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible without
political parties, because parties fulfill all the key functions of
democratic governance. They nominate candidates, coordinate
campaigns, aggregate interests, formulate and implement policy, and
manage government power. When scholars first asserted the essential
connection between parties and democracy, most of the world s
democracies were parliamentary. Yet by the dawn of the twenty-first
century, most democracies had directly elected presidents. Given
this, if parties are truly critical to democracy, then a systematic
understanding of how the separation of powers shapes parties is
long overdue. David J. Samuels and Matthew S. Shugart provide a
theoretical framework for analyzing variation in the relationships
among presidents, parties, and prime ministers across the world s
democracies, revealing the important ways that the separation of
powers alters party organization and behavior thereby changing the
nature of democratic representation and accountability.
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