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Book Synopsis Recruiting and Retaining Party Activists by : Robin T. Pettitt
Download or read book Recruiting and Retaining Party Activists written by Robin T. Pettitt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how experienced party organisers in the UK work to recruit and to retain party activists for local campaigning. Local door-to-door campaigning is widely regarded as being a key element in a successful election campaign. However, for door-to-door campaigning to work, a large number of volunteer activists are required. The question then is: How can parties identify, recruit and retain such volunteer activists? Based on interviews with highly experienced campaigners, original party documents, the wider campaigning and volunteering literature, numerous informal conversations and the author’s own experience of local campaigning over a 20 year period, this book provides an answer to that question. It shows how potential activists are identified, encouraged to become active and supported through their initial encounter with local campaigning. The author also shows how local parties can encourage activists to remain active by creating a ‘retention enhancing campaigning environment’ and what that involves.
Book Synopsis Party Organization and Activism in the American South by : Robert P. Steed
Download or read book Party Organization and Activism in the American South written by Robert P. Steed and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps the ways political parties remain vital components in the American political system, especially in the eleven states in the South As Tocqueville noted more than 100 years ago, “No countries need associations more . . . than those with a democratic social state.” Although some contemporary observers see a decline in associations, especially in the political sphere, the contributors in this volume argue not only that political parties remain an essential component of the American political system but also that grassroots political groups have revitalized the political process, especially in the South. Using data gathered from local party officials in the eleven southern states, the authors examine such key issues as: Who becomes involved in local party organizations and why? How do parties recruit and retain workers? What are the ideological and issue orientations of these activists? How does intraparty factionalism affect local party organizations? What is the connection between the party organization and its external environment? The large regional database provides these contributors with the opportunity to extend the study of local party organization and activists, thus addressing some of the significant gaps in previous research. The additional data enable them to clarify the nature of local party organizations and, in a larger sense, the role of the parties in the contemporary American political system.
Book Synopsis The Modern British Party System by : Paul Webb
Download or read book The Modern British Party System written by Paul Webb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this successful book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview and account of the changing nature of party politics in Britain today. Webb and Bale draw on models of comparative politics in conducting a wealth of new empirical analysis to map and explain the ways in which the party system has evolved, and the parties have adapted to a changing political environment. Themes covered include the nature and extent of party competition, the internal life and organizational development of parties, the varieties of party system found across the UK, and the roles played by parties within the wider political system. The book also addresses the crisis of popular legitimacy confronting the parties, as well as assessing the scope for potential reform. While parties remain central to the functioning of Britain's democracy, public disaffection with them is as high as it has ever been; reform of the system of representation and party funding is warranted, but there are unlikely to be any panaceas.
Book Synopsis Political Party Financing and Electoral Politics in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic by : Babayo Sule
Download or read book Political Party Financing and Electoral Politics in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic written by Babayo Sule and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Political Party Financing and Electoral Politics in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, Babayo Sule provides a detailed analysis of the process of political party financing in Nigeria from 1999 to the present. Sule links the party financing process with the electoral process and explores issues of democratic accountability, transparency, and corruption in Nigeria under democratic rule. Issues of excessive spending, violation of legal procedures for party financing and monitoring of parties’ activities, particularly, finances are explored. The book presents an analytical discourse on elections and processes that influence an election in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic in which party financing and money politics are instrumental. This book observes how political corruption gains root in the process of party financing and builds a theory linking party financing, electoral politics, and democratic accountability. This book provides practical policy implications for strengthening Nigeria’s electoral process and transparency in its democracy.
Book Synopsis Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the 21st Century by : Tim Bale
Download or read book Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the 21st Century written by Tim Bale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible, rigorously researched and highly revealing book lifts the lid on political party membership. It represents the first in-depth study of six of the UK's biggest parties – Labour, the Conservatives, the Scottish National Party, the Liberal Democrats, UK Independence Party and the Greens – carried out simultaneously, thereby providing invaluable new insights into members' social characteristics, attitudes, activities and campaigning, reasons for joining and leaving, and views on how their parties should be run and who should represent them. In short, at a time of great pressure on, and change across parties, this book helps us discover not only what members want out of their parties but what parties want out of their members. This text is essential reading for those interested in political parties, party membership, elections and campaigning, representation, and political participation, be they scholars and students of British and comparative politics, or politicians, journalists and party members – in short, anyone who cares about the future of representative democracy.
Book Synopsis Political Parties, Pressure Groups and Social Movements by : Dr. Ram Ayodhya Singh
Download or read book Political Parties, Pressure Groups and Social Movements written by Dr. Ram Ayodhya Singh and published by K.K. Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns and educational outreach or protest actions. Parties often espouse an expressed ideology or vision bolstered by a written platform with specific goals, forming a coalition among disparate interests. An advocacy group is a group or an organization which tries to influence the government but does not hold power in the government. A single-issue group may form in response to a particular issue area sometimes in response to a single event or threat. Some have developed into important social, political institutions or social movements. Some powerful Lobby groups have been accused of manipulating the democratic system for narrow commercial gain and in some instances have been found guilty of corruption, fraud, bribery and other serious crimes; lobbying has become increasingly regulated as a result. Some groups, generally ones with less financial resources, may use direct action and civil disobedience and in some cases are accused of being a threat to the social order or ‘domestic extremists. Research is beginning to explore how advocacy groups use social media to facilitate civic engagement and collective action. Contents: • Political Parties • The Role of Political Parties in Constitutionalising Governance • The Systemic Role of Parties and Interest Groups • Functions of Pressure Groups • Growth of Pressure Groups • Legal Representation of Interests • Social Movement • Social Movement in India
Book Synopsis Southern State Party Organizations and Activists by : Charles Hadley
Download or read book Southern State Party Organizations and Activists written by Charles Hadley and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-02-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume describes and analyzes grassroots political party organizations in the South. Based upon surveys of county political party committee activists, conducted for the Southern Grassroots Party Activists Project and funded by the National Science Foundation, the work examines each of the 11 Southern states. Each chapter in the book, written by a scholar from the particular state, describes the general political history of that state over the 1954-1992 period, and then details state party organizations and activists—activists' backgrounds, politics, motivations for party activism, and party organization maintenance. The data and analysis presented depict political changes in the South, at both the state and national level, and provide for fascinating comparisons from state to state in the solid South.
Author :Professor of Politics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Political Parties University of Sheffield (Emeritus) Patrick Seyd Publisher :Oxford University Press ISBN 13 :0199242828 Total Pages :246 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (992 download)
Book Synopsis Third Force Politics by : Professor of Politics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Political Parties University of Sheffield (Emeritus) Patrick Seyd
Download or read book Third Force Politics written by Professor of Politics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Political Parties University of Sheffield (Emeritus) Patrick Seyd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who belongs to the Liberal Democrats, and why? What are the opinions of the party members about politics and society, and about their own party organization? How active are the members, and what role do they play in electoral politics?Based on extensive research and a nationally representative survey of the grassroots party, this is the first book-length study of Liberal Democrat party members. It examines who they are, why they joined the party, what activities they undertake both in the wider community and in electoral politics, and it looks at their views on a whole range of policy issues in British politics.This book represents the continuation of a series of studies of party members in Britain co-authored by Patrick Seyd and Paul Whiteley.
Book Synopsis Mobilizing the Marginalized by : Amit Ahuja
Download or read book Mobilizing the Marginalized written by Amit Ahuja and published by Modern South Asia. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Dalit Politics, Amit Ahuja uses the Dalit case to develop a powerful new theory of the often orthogonal relationship between social and political mobilization. He argues that when a marginalized ethnic group's social mobilization precedes its electoral mobilization, the marginalized group's ethnic party will perform poorly. This is because any political inclusion won by a marginalized group's movement weakens the ethnic bloc voting required by its ethnic political party to succeed. When Dalit social movements succeed, competition for their votes increases at the local level, which in turn lowers the importance of caste for differentiating among parties. In areas where marginal groups have a tradition of successfully social mobilization, they prefer material goods over symbolic goods--which serves to divvy up party preferences within the group. Yet when Dalit social mobilization is absent or weak, other parties do not compete for them. Without competition for marginalized voters, their voting blocs are preserved. Ironically, marginalized ethnic group parties are more likely to succeed. Ahuja also analyzes the human development outcomes and finds another irony: in the social sphere, caste solidarity improves public goods provision for the marginalized group, but in the electoral sphere, the effects are negative because such parties are weak political clients. Democratically elected officials are less accountable to them. Featuring a powerful research base and a highly original thesis, Mobilizing the Marginalized promises to change how we think about democracy in the developing world"--
Book Synopsis Party Activists in Southern Politics by : Charles D. Hadley
Download or read book Party Activists in Southern Politics written by Charles D. Hadley and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The implications of these and other significant realignments - especially as reflected among grassroots activists in the two major parties - are the focus of this valuable new book.
Book Synopsis Beyond Party Members by : Susan E. Scarrow
Download or read book Beyond Party Members written by Susan E. Scarrow and published by Comparative Politics. This book was released on 2015 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a broad overview of an important and ongoing transformation in relations between political parties and their closest supporters. It focuses on established parliamentary democracies, showing how the changing nature of party membership is affecting how political parties define themselves and the choices presented to voters.
Download or read book Held in contempt written by Hannah White and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Commons is increasingly held in contempt by the British public. From attending parties during the Covid-19 lockdown to taking payment for lobbying, MPs undermine their credibility by acting as if the rules they set for others should not apply to them. Still far from representative of the country they govern from the ancient and crumbling Palace of Westminster, MPs appear detached from the lives led by their constituents – conducting their business according to rules and procedures that have become too complex for many of them to understand. In this timely book, Hannah White offers a perceptive critique of the shortcomings of the House of Commons, arguing that the reputation of the Commons is in a downward spiral - compounded by government attempts to side-line parliament during Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic. At a time of populist challenge to representative democracy, this book is an essential rallying cry for MPs to reform the House of Commons – equipping it to fulfil its important role as a cornerstone of our democracy – or see it fade into irrelevance.
Book Synopsis The Life of the Parties by : Ronald Rapoport
Download or read book The Life of the Parties written by Ronald Rapoport and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1986 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commentators, especially since the Democratic party reforms following 1968, have expressed serious concerns about the role of party activists in the American political system. Have they become so concerned with ideological purity that they are unable to nominate strong candidates? Are activists loyal only to particular interest groups, with little concern for the parties as institutions? Are the reformed nominating procedures open to takeover by new activists, who exit the party immediately after the presidential nominations fight? With such an unrepresentative set of activists, can parties ad.
Book Synopsis Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries by : Valerie J. Bunce
Download or read book Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries written by Valerie J. Bunce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1998 to 2005, six elections took place in postcommunist Europe that had the surprising outcome of empowering the opposition and defeating authoritarian incumbents or their designated successors. Valerie J. Bunce and Sharon L. Wolchik compare these unexpected electoral breakthroughs. They draw three conclusions. First, the opposition was victorious because of the hard and creative work of a transnational network composed of local opposition and civil society groups, members of the international democracy assistance community and graduates of successful electoral challenges to authoritarian rule in other countries. Second, the remarkable run of these upset elections reflected the ability of this network to diffuse an ensemble of innovative electoral strategies across state boundaries. Finally, elections can serve as a powerful mechanism for democratic change. This is especially the case when civil society is strong, the transfer of political power is through constitutional means, and opposition leaders win with small mandates.
Book Synopsis Nomination Politics by : Alan Abramowitz
Download or read book Nomination Politics written by Alan Abramowitz and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1984 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the candidate choice behavior of party activists in connection with the 1980 Democratic and Republican presidential nominations. Based on questionnaires completed by almost 18,000 activists at 22 state party conventions, the authors examine the impact of demographic representation, interest group mobilization, ideology, and candidate electability on the behavior of a broadly based sample of American party activists.
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Book Synopsis Dirty Deals? [3 volumes] by : Amy Handlin
Download or read book Dirty Deals? [3 volumes] written by Amy Handlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia unlike any other, this work focuses on lobbying, corruption, and political influence in America to inspire readers to think critically about the U.S. government and to appreciate the opportunities of citizenship. Even before the founding of the Republic, James Madison expressed the concern that special interest influence could become "adverse to the rights of other citizens [as well as] the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." In modern times, examples of lobbying scandals and corruption associated with political campaign contributions abound—and yet our political system can and does further the larger goals of American democracy. Suited for advanced high school students, undergraduates, and general readers, this set examines the three powerful forces that affect every level of government but typically operate out of public view. This three-volume work exhaustively covers the evolution and impact of lobbying, political influence, and corruption from the Colonial era to today. Volume 1 contains detailed scholarly essays on various aspects of lobbying, corruption, and political influence. Volume 2 comprises informative A–Z entries on people, events, laws, organizations, and legal decisions. The entries demonstrate the linkages among the topics but give equal attention to each as an independent influence on U.S. government and politics. Developments since 1990 and the extensive proliferation of the Internet and social media receive additional emphasis. Volume 3 contains primary documents that include executive orders, court cases, state and federal lobbying forms, and codes of conduct related to lobbying, campaign finance reform, and anti-corruption measures.
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