Is the Jamaican Two Party System in Danger of Biblical Armageddon? The Role of Political Party Organization

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
Party System ◽  
Party Organization

The New American Political Party

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 1152-1169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Schlesinger
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Party System ◽  
Party Organization ◽  
Party Organizations ◽  
Realistic Theory ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Competitive Relations

To understand changes taking place within political parties we must work from a realistic theory, one that accepts these parties as office-seeking coalitions. On that premise I lay out three interacting sets of variables: 1) The structure of political opportunities, or the rules for office seeking and the ways they are treated, and 2) the party system, or the competitive relations among parties, define the expectations of politicians, and thus lead them to create 3) party organizations, or the collective efforts to gain and retain office. Hypotheses derived from the relations among these variables allow us to examine changes in American parties in the twentieth century. They explain why the Progressive era reforms, in tandem with the post-1896 party system, produced an uneven distribution of party organization and weak linkages among candidates and officeholders. The same theory also explains why changes taking place since the 1950s are producing greater organizational effort and stronger partisan links among candidates and officeholders.

scholarly journals Multi-Party As The Most Important Condition For The Development Of Democracy In Uzbekistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (11) ◽  
pp. 309-313
Author(s):  
Rasulova Nodira Sardarovna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Party System ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Important Condition

The article analyzes concepts such as a political party, multi-party system, inter-party competition, the positive aspects of the multi-party system, the role of political parties in society, the reasons and factors for the emergence of shortcomings in the activities of political parties in Uzbekistan.

Transformational Leaders and Ideological Shifts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradeep K. Chhibber ◽  
Rahul Verma
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
Transformational Leaders ◽  
Party Organization ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Club Goods ◽  
Indian Politics ◽  
Transactional Leaders

The role of leadership in Indian politics is not well understood. Often Indian politicians, in line with the thesis that India is a patronage democracy, are presented as transactional leaders who win votes and elections by promising voters private or club goods. Transactional leaders are important to help citizens navigate an opaque state and deeply hierarchical bureaucracy, but their ability to mobilize votes on the national canvas is overstated as is their impact on the party system. We show that leaders who succeed in projecting themselves as transformational politicians who offer clear and distinct ideological visions with respect to the politics of statism and the politics of recognition, have been responsible for the large shifts in India’s party system. Transformational leaders are important because they can hold the party organization, make cross-cutting coalitions, energize vote mobilizers and increase turnout for the party.

Party organizational strength and party unity in post-communist Europe

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margit Tavits
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
Party Organization ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Party Characteristics

The existing comparative literature focuses on political institutions to explain party unity in parliament, and largely ignores the role of party characteristics in this process. This study argues that the strength of political party organization directly and independently influences the level of party unity. Organizational strength makes the party a valuable asset to individual legislators, thus increasing their willingness to be disciplined. Therefore, parties with strong organizations are likely to be more unified in parliament than those with weak organizations. I find support for this argument with data from four post-communist democracies: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, and Poland. Narratives suggest that the proposed causal mechanism is plausible.

scholarly journals MEMBANGUN DEMOKRASI DI ATAS KEPENTINGAN RAKYAT (ILUSI KEPENTINGAN RAKYAT)

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bibianus Hengky Widhi Antoro
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Party System ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Operational Activities ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Party Funding

ABSTRACTPolitical party plays an important role in the democratic process of a country due to its role as a political infrastructure in an attempt to print a cadre of state leaders in the executive and legislative branches, which is a political suprastructure. Te correlationof both branches arevery important in the realization of the rule of law, which is based on democratic principles. In order to strengthen democracy and the implementation of an effective party system, strengthening the institutions and improving the function and the role of political party are needed.Tus, public funds (public fnancing) is nedeed by the political party to support operational activities of political education and political party secretariat. In relation with that issue, the fnancial disclosure at the level of internal party democracy is nedeed. Tis paper analyzes the fnancial support of political parties, in particular on the party funding arrangements system sourced from public funds, as referred to in the regulations governing the fnancial aid of the party with regard to the principles of good fnancial management and international standards that are built on people’s interests.Keywords : political party, democracy, political party fnance.INTISARIPartai Politik memegang peranan penting dalam proses demokrasi suatu negara. Mengingat perannya sebagai infrastruktur politik dalam upaya mencetak kaderkader pemimpin negara di eksekutif maupun legislatif yang merupakan suatu suprastruktur politik. Korelasi keduanya sangatlah penting di dalam perwujudan prinsip negara hukum yang didasarkan pada prinsip-prinsip demokrasi. Guna penguatan pelaksanaan demokrasi dan sistem kepartaian yang efektif diperlukan penguatan kelembagaan serta peningkatan fungsi dan peran Partai Politik. Sehingga dengan demikian diperlukan adanya pemberian bantuan keuangan partai yang bersumber dari dana publik (public fnancing) yang digunakan sebagai penunjangkegiatan pendidikan politik dan operasional sekretariat partai politik. Berkaitan dengan hal tersebut, perlu adanya demokrasi pada tataran internal partai untuk mewujudkan keterbukaan keuangan partai. Tulisan ini menganalisis tentang bantuan keuangan partai politik, secara spesifk pada sistem pengaturan pendanaan partai yang bersumber dari dana publik sebagaimana dimaksud dalam regulasi yang mengatur tentang bantuan keuangan partai dengan memperhatikan prinsip-prinsip pengelolaan keuangan yang baik dan standar internasional yang dibangun di atas kepentingan rakyat.Kata Kunci : Partai Politik, Demokrasi, bantuan keuangan partai.

Towards the Final Legitimation of the Party

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piero Ignazi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Sole Source ◽  
The Political ◽  
Party Formation ◽  
Post War ◽  
Dominant Influence

Chapter 3 investigates the process of party formation in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy, and demonstrates the important role of cultural and societal premises for the development of political parties in the nineteenth century. Particular attention is paid in this context to the conditions in which the two mass parties, socialists and Christian democrats, were established. A larger set of Western European countries included in this analysis is thoroughly scrutinized. Despite discontent among traditional liberal-conservative elites, full endorsement of the political party was achieved at the beginning of the twentieth century. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of the interwar totalitarian party, especially under the guise of Italian and German fascism, when ‘the party’ attained its most dominant influence as the sole source and locus of power. The chapter concludes by suggesting hidden and unaccounted heritages of that experience in post-war politics.

Segmental Volatility in Ethnically Divided Societies: (Re)assessing Party System Stability in Southeast Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Damir Kapidžić ◽  
Olivera Komar
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Party System ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
East European ◽  
Ethnic Parties ◽  
Stabilizing Factors

Abstract This article examines the role of ethnicity and ethnic parties as stabilizing factors in Southeast European party systems. It compares two ethnically divided countries in Southeast Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina, where ethnic identities that form the political cleavage are firm, and Montenegro, where they are malleable. Theoretically, it addresses the debate between scholars who either find stability or instability in East European post-communist party systems. The article traces the role of ethnicity in the formation and development of electoral contests and compares the two cases by utilizing measures of block volatility, based on analysis of official electoral data. We argue that party systems in ethnically diverse countries are stable at the subsystems level, but unstable within them. In BiH, firm ethnic identity stabilizes the party system by limiting competition between blocks, leading to closure. Malleable ethnic identity in Montenegro opens competition to non-ethnic parties seeking to bridge ethnic divisions, leading to more instability. We find that party system dynamics in ethnically divided new democracies depend on identity rigidity and cleavage salience, in addition to levels of heterogeneity.

Democratic Disarray: Organizational Messaging Coherence and the Local Echoing Press During the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucus

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110108
Author(s):  
Eric C. Wiemer ◽  
Joshua M. Scacco ◽  
Brenda Berkelaar
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Organizational Crisis ◽  
Party Organization ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
Presidential Nomination ◽  
Des Moines ◽  
American Elections

The Iowa caucuses are the inaugural event of the American presidential nomination process. When the state Democratic Party failed to report the 2020 caucus results in a timely manner and manage the consequences, the crisis situation threatened the legitimacy of the party and the integrity of the results. This research presents an in-depth case of the Iowa Democratic Party’s public communication response regarding an event described by the Des Moines Register as “hell” and a “results catastrophe.” Specifically, we were interested in how the Iowa Democratic Party responded to the crisis event and the extent to which the party organization was successful in disseminating favorable messaging about the caucus process to the local press. Drawing on organizational crisis management and echoing press perspectives, this analysis uses network and qualitative analytic approaches to assess message development, dissemination, and ultimately adoption. A local event with national implications presents a critical case in investigating how a political party, due to its institutional role in American elections and unique organizational structure, struggled to respond to the crisis.

Hong Kong's Stunted Political Party System

2002 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 1010-1028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lau Siu-kai ◽  
Kuan Hsin-chi
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Party System ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Business Elites ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Political Party System ◽  
Representation Of Interests

Hong Kong's political parties are now in decline after the return of the former British colony to China. The decline of political parties stands out in stark relief in a context featuring “Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong” and gradual democratization. A major reason for the decline is the stunted political party system of Hong Kong. Prominent in that stunted system is the absence of a ruling party. The stunted party system is primarily the result of Beijing's antipathy towards party politics in Hong Kong, which in turn discourages party formation by the Hong Kong government and the conservative elites. The lack of incentives for the business elites to organize political parties to protect their interests is another major reason. The stunted party system has produced serious adverse consequences for the governance of Hong Kong, representation of interests, public attitudes towards the political class and the further democratization of the territory.

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