My purpose is to explore whether democracy within the incumbent party can help citizens to
monitor the government, that is, if the internal accountability of party leaders facilitates their …

Citizens elect for office that party whose promises are closer to their own political
preferences and they want the elected government to be democratically accountable and …

Political parties are central actors in representative democracy. Although it is possible to
have political parties without democracy, it does not seem possible-at least in the modern …

This article briefly reviews discussions about relations between unmediated decision-
making procedures and political parties. Late-19th-century debates about institutional reform …

Modern representative government has become party government, for good and for bad.
Thus the basic precondition for the establishment, survival, and functioning of governments …

Why do voters in electoral autocracies vote for opposition parties that are co-opted by the
government? The logic of electoral accountability should lead constituents to vote such …

As academic interest in direct democracy waxes and wanes, vari ants of the process seem
periodically to attract fans advocating its use and expansion (see for example Dolbare and …

Parties are back, and many are cheering. Party polarization has voters seeing stark
differences between Democrats and Republicans and demonstrating more ideological …

We analyze the interaction between electoral accountability and separation-of-powers by
comparing three regimes:'Unilateral Authority'(the President has exclusive decision-making …

Why are representative democracies extensively criticised, yet remain widely aspired to
throughout the world? Many citizens believe that democratic politicians operate with …