Party and Democracy
Party and Democracy

Author: Piero Ignazi

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-01-26

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0192537601

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Party and Democracy questions why political parties today are held in such low estimation in advanced democracies. The first part of the volume reviews theoretical motivations behind the growing disdain for the political party. In surveying the parties' lengthy attempt to gain legitimacy, particular attention is devoted to the cultural and political conditions which led to their emergence on the ground' and then to their political and theoretical acceptance as the sole master in the chain of delegation. The second part traces the evolution of the party's organization and public confidence against the backdrop of the transition from industrial to post-industrial societies. The book suggests that, in the post-war period, parties shifted from a golden age of organizational development and positive reception by public opinion towards a more difficult relationship with society as it moved into post industrialism. Parties were unable to master societal change and thus moved towards the state to recover resources they were no longer able to extract from their constituencies. Parties have become richer and more powerful thanks to their interpenetration into the state, but they have paid' for their pervasive presence in society and the state with a declining legitimacy. Even if some changes have been introduced recently in party organizations to counteract their decline, they seem to have become ineffective; even worse, they have dampened democratic standing inside and outside parties, favouring plebiscitary tendencies. The party today is caught in a dramatic contradiction. It has become a sort of Leviathan with clay feet: very powerful thanks to the resources it gets from the state and to its control of the societal and state spheres, but very weak in terms of legitimacy and confidence in the eyes of the mass public. However, it is argued that there is still no alternative to the party. Democracy is still inextricably linked to the party system.

Party Campaigning in the 1980s
Party Campaigning in the 1980s

Author: Paul S. Herrnson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780674655256

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Are American political parties on the way out? Political action committees (PACs) currently compete with parties for influence over candidates and voters; persuading a more independent and volatile electorate requires new tactics; technological innovations afford more sophisticated means to appeal for support. Many political observers express doubts about the ability of political parties to adapt to these changes and to survive, but Paul Herrnson instead suggests their survival and resurgence in this balanced assessment of party activities in congressional elections. Drawing on extensive interviews and survey data collected from nearly five hundred recent House and Senate candidates, campaign advisers, party officials, PAC executives, and journalists, Herrnson evaluates the roles of the national parties. He finds that from the perspective of party executives, they provide important campaign services and function as the key brokers between candidates, PACs, and other campaigners. For PAC officials, the national parties serve as important sources of strategic campaign information and cues for decision-making. For the candidates themselves, their parties function as appendages and accessories to their own campaign organizations. Herrnson provides rich detail on party development and party campaign activity to predict the future of congressional elections and of the party-in-government and the party-in-the-electorate. Political practitioners as well as scholars will welcome this fresh, new contribution to a significant political controversy.

Party Governments
Party Governments

Author: Richard S. Katz

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 3110900254

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The People's Lobby
The People's Lobby

Author: Elisabeth S. Clemens

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1997-09-02

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9780226109930

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Clemens sheds new light on how farmers, workers, and women invented strategies to circumvent the parties. Voters learned to monitor legislative processes, to hold their representatives accountable at the polls, and to institutionalize their ongoing participation in shaping policy. Closely analyzing the organizational politics in three states -- California, Washington, and Wisconsin -- she demonstrates how the political opportunity structure of federalism allowed regional innovations to exert leverage on national political institutions.

Choosing Our Choices
Choosing Our Choices

Author: Robert E. DiClerico

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780847694488

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Probably no feature of the American political system has been subject to more sustained criticism over the last twenty-five years than the process by which we choose our presidents. In Choosing Our Choices, Robert E. DiClerico and James W. Davis debate the question: should we retain the present, primary centered 'direct democracy' method in selecting presidential candidates or should we return to a representative decision-making process to nominate our candidates? This timely and thought-provoking text offers the reader a concise yet comprehensive analysis of the presidential nominating system, arguments for and against the current system, and supplemental documents and essays for further reading. Choosing Our Choices will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in exploring how Americans choose their leaders.

Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy
Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy

Author: C. Eugene Steuerle

Publisher: The Urban Insitute

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780877667384

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C. Eugene Steuerle, one of the country's most influential economists, offers an insider's look at tax policy based on a quarter century of working with officials of all political stripes. Steuerle outlines the principles of taxation and the early postwar period before proceeding to the tax policy battles that began with the Reagan revolution and continue today. Those expecting a simple story of triumph and defeat may be surprised. Rather than moving toward consensus and progress, tax policy history has been messy, repetitive, and often rancorous. Yet evolution-and even revolution-do occur. The second edition has been updated with a look at tax policy during the George W. Bush presidency.

Going Public
Going Public

Author: Samuel Kernell

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2006-10-18

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1483366294

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Presidents are uniquely positioned to promote themselves and their polices directly to the public. Using sympathetic crowds as a backdrop, a president can rally public opinion to his side, along the way delivering a subtle yet unmistakable message to his intended audience in Congress. Samuel Kernell shows how "going public" remains a potent weapon in the president’s arsenal, both for advancing his own agenda and blocking initiatives from his political adversaries in Congress. In his highly anticipated fourth edition, Kernell delivers thorough analysis and detailed background on how this strategy continues to evolve given the intense polarization of Congress and the electorate as well as changes in communications technology. He considers the implications of both factors—especially in combination—on the future of presidential leadership and weighs the lessons of 9/11 on "going public" in foreign affairs.

The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century
The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Gerald J. Baldasty

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1992-11-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0299134040

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The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century traces the major transformation of newspapers from a politically based press to a commercially based press in the nineteenth century. Gerald J. Baldasty argues that broad changes in American society, the national economy, and the newspaper industry brought about this dramatic shift. Increasingly in the nineteenth century, news became a commodity valued more for its profitablility than for its role in informing or persuading the public on political issues. Newspapers started out as highly partisan adjuncts of political parties. As advertisers replaced political parties as the chief financial support of the press, they influenced newspapers in directing their content toward consumers, especially women. The results were recipes, fiction, contests, and features on everything from sports to fashion alongside more standard news about politics. Baldasty makes use of nineteenth-century materials—newspapers from throughout the era, manuscript letters from journalists and politicians, journalism and advertising trade publications, government reports—to document the changing role of the press during the period. He identifies three important phases: the partisan newspapers of the Jacksonian era (1825-1835), the transition of the press in the middle of the century, and the influence of commercialization of the news in the last two decades of the century.

The American Enterprise Party Vol. 2
The American Enterprise Party Vol. 2

Author: Jerry Rhoads

Publisher:

Published: 2024-08-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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In Volume Two of the American Enterprise Party Trilogy, I write about how to elect an effective third-party candidate and why this is imperative to save our great American Enterprise. After being told that an effective third party will never happen, because money-tics blinds voters to the loss of their liberties, I present compelling reasons for why our current fiscal condition requires action. That's exactly why a third-party swing vote is needed in Congress to find solutions to those problems, not capitulating over woke issues like socialism versus capitalism and racism versus humanism. Where everything is wonderful until our politicians run out of other people's money. So, leadership and timing are everything and the time has come to balance the books and the power. With President Biden leading the progressives in taking over building back a bigger government, Big Brother will finally regulate the Great American Enterprise to its everlasting death, unless the binary system of government is turned upside down. The book proposes how to make sure a third party is viable. There are thirteen steps (chapters) to make this happen and why it will work with Chapter 13 laying out the entire platform. With the motto to downsize government and upsize enterprise. "Most bad government has grown out of too much government" ... Thomas Jefferson.