Electoral Strategies and Political Marketing
Electoral Strategies and Political Marketing

Author: Shaun Bowler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1349224111

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Despite the central importance of elections to representative democracy, there is no systematic study available of how exactly the parties wage their election campaigns. Examining recent elections in nine countries across three continents, there case studies, all following a common framework, are written by national experts and are based on detailed interviewing and research of the parties. The book includes a lengthy introduction; a comparative study on campaign 'effects'; and a detailed conclusion.

Changing Parties
Changing Parties

Author: F. Faucher-King

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-10-11

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0230509886

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Party conferences are central to the life of political parties. They contribute to setting policy agendas, developing policy options, legitimizing policy choices, building party cohesion, motivating activists and publicizing party activities to the wider public. An analysis of their evolution in Britain helps us understand the ways in which political parties change. This book combines anthropological methods with political science to analyze changing power relationships, party organizations and political culture in British political parties: Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, The Greens.

The Representative Claim
The Representative Claim

Author: Michael Saward

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2010-05-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0191576816

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Representation is more than a matter of elections and parties. This book offers a radical new perspective on the subject. Representation, it argues, is all around us, a dynamic practise across societies rather than simply a fixed feature of government. At the heart of the argument is the straightforward but versatile notion of the representative claim. People claim to speak or stand for others in multiple, shifting, and surprising patterns. At the same time they offer images of their constituents and audiences as artists paint portraits. Who can speak for and about us in this volatile world of representations? Which representative claims can have democratic legitimacy? The Representative Claim is set to transform our core assumptions about what representation is and can be. At a time when political representation is widely believed to be in crisis, the book provides a timely and critical corrective to conventional wisdom on the present and potential future of representative democracy.

The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980
The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980

Author: Stefano Bartolini

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-08-28

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 0521650216

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In an in-depth comparative analysis, Stefano Bartolini studies the history of socialism and working-class politics in Western Europe. While examining the social contexts, organizational structures, and political developments of thirteen socialist experiences from the 1860s to the 1980s, he reconstructs the steps through which social conflict was translated and structured into an opposition, as well as how it developed its different organizational and ideological forms, and how it managed more or less successfully to mobilize its reference groups politically.