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A long-standing debate in American politics is about the proper structure for political parties and the relative power that should be afforded to party professionals versus issue activists. In this book, Byron E. Shafer and Regina L. Wagner draw systematically on new data and indexes to evaluate the extent to which party structure changed from the 1950s on, and what the consequences have been for policy responsiveness, democratic representation, and party alignment across different issue domains. They argue that the reputed triumph of volunteer parties since the 1970s has been less comprehensive than the orthodox narrative assumes, but that the balance of power did shift, with unintended and sometimes perverse consequences. In the process of evaluating its central questions, this book gives an account of how partisan alignments evolved with newly empowered issue activists and major post-war developments from the civil rights movement to the culture wars.

Political party organization --- Representative government and representation --- Political planning --- Party organization, Political --- Organization

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EEC / European Union - EU -Europese Unie - Union Européenne - UE --- 329 --- #SBIB:324H43 --- Politieke partijen. --- Politieke structuren: politieke partijen --- Political parties --- Political party organization --- Party organization, Political --- Organization --- Politieke partijen

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Political party organization --- Political parties --- Parties, Political --- Party systems, Political --- Political party systems --- Political science --- Divided government --- Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) --- Political conventions --- Party organization, Political --- Organization --- History.

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Are politics local? Why? Where? When? How do we measure local versus national politics? And what are the effects? This book provides answers to these questions, within an explicitly comparative framework, including both advanced and developing democracies. It does so by using a statistically-based and graphical account of party nationalization, providing methodology and data for legislative elections covering scores of parties across dozens of countries. The book divides party nationalization into two dimensions - static and dynamic - to capture different aspects of localism, both with important implications for representation. Static nationalization measures the consistency in a party's support across the country and thus shows whether parties are able to encompass local concerns into their platforms. Dynamic nationalization, in turn, measures the consistency among the districts in over-time change in electoral results, under the presumption that where districts differ in their electoral responses, local factors must drive politics. Each of the two dimensions, in sum, considers representation from the perspective of the mix of national versus local politics.

Political party organization. --- Politics, Practical. --- Party affiliation. --- Representative government and representation. --- Comparative government. --- Electoral politics --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Politics --- Practical politics --- Political science --- Political participation --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Affiliation, Party --- Political affiliation --- Political parties --- Party organization, Political --- Organization --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Self-government --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Democracy --- Elections --- Republics --- Suffrage --- Membership

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"When do opposition party leaders build pre-electoral alliances to compete against electoral autocrats? Through two pairs of case study comparisons in East and Southeast Asia-between the Philippines and South Korea in the late 1980s, and between Malaysia and Singapore from 1965 to 2020-Opposing Power argues that opposition elites' perceptions of regime vulnerability and mutual dependency shape their efforts to construct alliances. Multiple regime-debilitating events striking the incumbent within a short period of time can raise opposition expectations of impending victory, galvanizing efforts for inter-party coordination. Clear information about the relative strengths and weaknesses of opposition parties fosters recognition of their mutual dependency, inducing party leaders to coordinate towards joint victory. Drawing on a broad range of archival material and a wealth of fieldwork, Opposing Power illustrates how dueling opposition parties can sometimes become strange bedfellows."

Politics and government. --- Political party organization. --- Coalition governments. --- Partis politiques --- Organisation. --- Southeast Asia. --- East Asia. --- Asie du Sud-Est --- Southeast Asia --- East Asia --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politics and government --- Cabinet system --- Coalitions --- Party organization, Political --- Organization --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Orient --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- East --- Asia --- Since 1900