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Parties, Conflicts and Coalitions in Western Europe
Explores the impact intraparty conflicts have on a party's coalition bargaining. Focusing on the UK Denmark, Norway, Italy and France, it analyses whether organizational imperatives of political parties feature in intraparty competition.
Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments
This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments. The authors look beyond party cohesion and discipline in parliamentary democracies to take a broader view, assuming a diversity of preferences among party members and then exploring the incentives that give rise to coordinated party behaviour at the electoral, legislative and executive levels. The chapters in this book share a common analytical framework, confronting theoretical models of government formation with empirical data, some drawn from cross-national analyses and others from theoretically structured case studies...
Politicians Or Parties? Assessing the Effects of Intraparty Conflict in the United States
This dissertation presents the results of a series of large-N, demographically representative survey experiments conducted at different stages of the 2020 presidential election cycle, designed to test the effects of highlighting intraparty policy conflict on subjects' political beliefs. I find politicians of both major political parties are able to persuade followers to take on counter-party policy positions with limited electoral risk, and that these persuasive effects are enduring, still detectable nine months after treatment. While subjects updated their own policy positions in response to treatment, they did not update the policy positions they prefer when selecting among hypothetical candidates, in contrast to issue voting theorists predictions. While politicians appear to be far more effective opinion leaders than parties, therefore, their persuasive abilities may not significantly alter the shape of the partisan electorate as faced by other candidates. These findings refine our scholarly understanding of individual politicians as opinion leaders in the contemporary United States, and demonstrates the challenges political parties face in checking their popular politicians.
Losing from the Inside
This book focuses on the consequences of internal conflict for electoral competition and demonstrates why the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in alliance with the Liberals, "lost from the inside" during two general election campaigns in Great Britain.
Leaders, Factions and the Game of Intra-Party Politics
The book provides a comprehensive view on the internal life of parties and investigates the dynamics of intra-party politics in different party environments to explain in which circumstances the party leader is more or less bound by the wills of party factions. Analyzing almost 500 intra-party documents from Italy, Germany and France, it presents a theory of intra-party politics that illuminates internal decision-making processes and sheds light on the outcomes of factional conflicts on the allocation of payoffs within the party, on the risk of a party split and on the survival of the party leader. Using text analysis, the results show that consensual dynamics can allow to preserve party unity and that directly elected leaders can exploit their larger autonomy either to reward followers or to prevent splits. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of Party Politics, Political Institutions, European Politics and more broadly to Comparative Politics, Political Theory and Text Analysis.
Political Parties
Political Parties presents perspectives on political parties in democracies at the beginning of the 21st century. It critically re-examines the classic concepts and typologies that have guided research in this field over the past decades.
Managing Leader Selection in European Political Parties
This book explores the varying ways in which political parties in Europe make arguably their most important decisions: the selection of their leaders. The choice shapes the representation of a party externally. It also influences the management of internal conflict, because there will always be some disagreement about the party’s direction. The rules of selection will naturally affect the outcome. Yet there is more to it than rules. Sometimes the process is open and fiercely contested. Sometimes the field of potential leaders is filtered even before the decision reaches the selectorate – the organ that, according to party statutes, formally makes the appointment. The selectorate might have only a single candidate to ratify, a so-called ‘coronation’. The book presents a framework for analysing both the formal and informal sides of leader selection, and hones the framework through its application in a series of case studies from nine European countries.
When Political Parties Clash
The purpose of this book is to introduce comparative studies of the Tanzanian and Malawian political parties, their basic conceptual paradigms, salient theories, and sets of theoretical hypotheses. The collection of papers brings together insights important to many fields: from political theories, theories on political parties, and institutional settings. They further provide analysis of the contemporary political climates of Tanzania and Malawi; and hope to enhance the democratic process and good governance of political parties in these countries. The chapters are organised thematically into sections on: the deep roots of political parties; Africa and political conflict; Tanzania, as 'the two in one state'; inter-party conflict: the CCM and CUF in Tanzania; intra-party conflict: the NCCR-Mageuzi, in Tanzania; the legacy of dictatorship in Malawi; inter- and intra-party conflict in Malawi; and retrospective and prospective perspectives on the democracies in question. The editors are political scientists and co-ordinators of the Eastern and Southern African Universities Research Programme, of which this book is a product.
