Two-Party Politics in the One-Party South: Alabama's Hill Country, 1874-1920.

IntroduzioneCentral Eastern European party politics offers a good example of the trend towards centralizing internal party decision making, as well as encouraging strong personalities in the role of party leader. This trend is visible in all three major spheres of party activity: election campaigning, the internal organization of parties, and governmental politics. This paper focusses on the party systems of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia to demonstrate that there are actually two processes of presidentialization that occur in party politics. On the one hand, the role of the leader is gaining importance in more traditional, well-established parties such as the Civic and Social Democrats in the Czech Republic and Fidesz in Hungary. On the other hand, perhaps an even clearer presidentialization process is evident in the emergence of new protest parties focussed around strong personalities that often make no attempt to establish and maintain a more complex internal party organization.

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The effect of electoral autocracy in Egypt's failed transition: a party politics perspective

Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica ◽

10.1017/ipo.2019.6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 49 (2) ◽

pp. 157-173 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Valeria Resta

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Party System ◽

Common Ground ◽

Political Competition ◽

Party Politics ◽

Mena Region ◽

Electoral Authoritarianism ◽

Quantitative Text Analysis ◽

The One ◽

The Arab Spring

AbstractAlthough the failed democratic transition in Egypt following the Arab Spring is unanimously held as a poster child for the stubbornness of authoritarianism in the MENA region, its determinants remain disputed. Contributing to this debate, this article focuses on the noxious effects of past electoral authoritarianism on the transitional party system. More specifically, through quantitative text analysis, the article demonstrates that transitional parties’ agency is largely the by-product of the way in which political competition was structured under the previous electoral autocracy. On the one hand, the uneven structure of opportunity upholding previous rule is central to the lack of pluralism. On the other hand, the previous regime's practice of playing opposition actors against each other through identity politics is at the root of the absence of common ground among the aforementioned parties during the transition.

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Hill Country Teacher: Oral Histories from the One-Room School and beyond

History of Education Quarterly ◽

10.2307/368820 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 162

Author(s):

Robert R. Sherman ◽

Diane Manning

Keyword(s):

Oral Histories ◽

Hill Country ◽

The One

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Language, attitudes and party politics

Pragmatics and Society ◽

10.1075/ps.16059.fen ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 232-251

Author(s):

Dezheng (William) Feng ◽

Shuo Zhang

Keyword(s):

Republican Party ◽

Speech Acts ◽

Language Attitudes ◽

Party Politics ◽

The Other ◽

Negative Attitudes ◽

Negative Image ◽

Conflict And Cooperation ◽

Negative Judgment ◽

The One

Abstract This study investigates Barack Obama’s attitudes towards Republicans and Democrats by analyzing a corpus of 249 Presidential weekly addresses. Analysis shows that Obama’s attitudes towards the Republicans are characterized by a negative judgment of propriety, creating a negative image of the Republican Party, whereas when Republicans and Democrats are mentioned together, his attitudes are characterized by his hopes for and commendations on bipartisan collaboration. An analytical model based on the attitude schema is proposed to explicate the strategies for encoding attitudes. It is found that negative attitudes are always expressed implicitly by recounting events that elicit the attitudes (i.e. behaviors of the Republicans) and performing speech acts that are motivated by the attitudes (i.e. urging the Republicans to stop the wrong behaviors). The patterns of attitudes reflect bipartisan conflict and cooperation on the one hand, and constitute an important strategy to battle against the opposition party and build coalitions on the other.

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