TY - BOOK ID - 78073301 TI - Building blocs AU - Leon, Cedric de AU - Tuğal, Cihan AU - Desai, Manali PY - 2015 SN - 0804794987 9780804794985 9780804793902 0804793905 9780804794923 0804794928 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - Comparative government. KW - Political parties KW - Social conflict KW - Social structure KW - Political sociology. KW - Parties, Political KW - Party systems, Political KW - Political party systems KW - Political science KW - Divided government KW - Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) KW - Political conventions KW - Comparative political systems KW - Comparative politics KW - Government, Comparative KW - Political systems, Comparative KW - Mass political behavior KW - Political behavior KW - Sociology KW - Organization, Social KW - Social organization KW - Anthropology KW - Social institutions KW - Class conflict KW - Class struggle KW - Conflict, Social KW - Social tensions KW - Interpersonal conflict KW - Social psychology KW - Social aspects. KW - Political aspects. KW - Sociological aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78073301 AB - Do political parties merely represent divisions in society? Until now, scholars and other observers have generally agreed that they do. But Building Blocs argues the reverse: that some political parties in fact shape divisions as they struggle to remake the social order. Drawing on the contributors' expertise in Indonesia, India, the United States, Canada, Egypt, and Turkey, this volume demonstrates further that the success and failure of parties to politicize social differences has dramatic consequences for democratic change, economic development, and other large-scale transformations. This politicization of divisions, or "political articulation," is neither the product of a single charismatic leader nor the machinations of state power, but is instead a constant call and response between parties and would-be constituents. When articulation becomes inconsistent, as it has in Indonesia, partisan calls grow faint and the resulting vacuum creates the possibility for other forms of political expression. However, when political parties exercise their power of interpellation efficiently, they are able to silence certain interests such as those of secular constituents in Turkey. Building Blocs exposes political parties as the most influential agencies that structure social cleavages and invites further critical investigation of the related consequences. ER -