Despite their centrality to modern democracy, until recently political parties were relegated to
the margins of normative democratic theory, taking a back seat to social movements, civil …

Despite their importance to one another, the current literatures on political parties and
normative democratic theory continue to develop largely in mutual isolation. Empirical …

For a century at least, parties have been central to the study of politics. Yet their typical
conceptual reduction to a network of power-seeking elites has left many to wonder why …

In recent years, a number of scholars have taken parties and partisanship as objects of
normative theorizing. They posit partisanship as a fundamentally democratic practice and …

Three conceptions of the political party can be distinguished. They are Seiler's sociocultural
cleavage approach; Lawson's notion of the linkage party, based upon participatory, policy …

The theory of parties put forward by scholars associated with the University of California at
Los Angeles argues that political parties are best viewed as coalitions of intense policy …

State University oLf New York at Stony Brook Political THEORISTS have long been
concerned with analyzing and evaluating the relationship between political parties and …

Political parties are historically and logically connected to democracy. This article examines
models of political parties and their relationship to democratic philosophy, with primary …

Page 1 RICHARD ROSE THE PROBLEM OF PARTY GOVERNMENT Page 2 THE PROBLEM
OF PARTY GOVERNMENT Page 3 Also by Richard Rose Politics in England Today (Faber) …

The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political party threat.
Recent years have witnessed the rise of a range of authoritarian populist, illiberal, far-right …