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Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution: Comparative Politics

Autor Allan Sikk, Philipp Köker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 oct 2023

Suntem de părere că studiul sistemelor politice a evoluat semnificativ de la analiza structurilor formale către o înțelegere granulară a fluxurilor umane care compun aceste organizații. În lucrarea Party People, Allan Sikk și Philipp Köker propun o schimbare de paradigmă în politica comparată, tratând candidații nu doar ca simpli reprezentanți, ci ca „gene” ale partidelor politice. Această abordare evoluționistă permite observarea transformărilor de profunzime care au loc chiar și în cadrul partidelor aparent stabile, unde schimbarea candidaților sub suprafață modifică treptat identitatea și obiectivele formațiunilor.

Notăm cu interes rigoarea metodologică aplicată pe un set de date impresionant, care acoperă nouă democrații din Europa Centrală și de Est (ECE). Autorii urmăresc traseul a 200.000 de candidați între diferite cicluri electorale, oferind instrumente noi pentru măsurarea turnover-ului, a fuziunilor și a schimbărilor de leadership. Este o perspectivă necesară pentru a înțelege dinamismul adesea haotic al peisajului politic post-comunist. Ca alternativă la Party Organization and Electoral Volatility in Central and Eastern Europe de Sergiu Gherghina pentru cursurile de politici comparate, acest volum aduce avantajul unei unități de analiză mult mai fine — individul — oferind o explicație empirică solidă pentru volatilitatea electorală prin prisma migrației și reînnoirii candidaților. Structura textului este academică și densă, fiind un instrument esențial pentru cercetătorii care doresc să depășească analizele programatice clasice și să exploreze biologia internă a partidelor.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198868125
ISBN-10: 019886812X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 165 x 242 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Comparative Politics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru studenții și cercetătorii în științe politice care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele reale ale schimbării partidelor în Europa de Est. Cititorul câștigă acces la o metodologie inovatoare bazată pe date masive, învățând cum să utilizeze fluctuația candidaților ca indicator predictiv pentru evoluția ideologică și structurală a sistemelor politice contemporane.


Despre autor

Allan Sikk este conferențiar în politică comparată la University College London (SSEES), specializat în sistemele de partide din Europa Centrală și de Est și în studiul noilor partide politice. Philipp Köker este cercetător și lector, recunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale în domeniul studiilor executive și al politicii comparate, cu un accent deosebit pe rolul președinților și al partidelor în democrațiile tinere. Împreună, cei doi autori combină expertiza în analiza datelor electorale cu o înțelegere profundă a contextului politic regional, fiind membri activi ai rețelelor de cercetare ECPR.


Descriere

Political parties are nothing without their people and candidates are essential to parties' core functions - contesting elections, filling political offices, and shaping policy. Candidates are the literal 'face' of parties, yet they are not wedded to them permanently: candidates can enter or leave politics, switch parties, move along or stay behind when parties split or merge. Even in parties that look stable, candidate change happens below the surface, ultimately altering what the parties stand for. Inspired by evolutionary theories, Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution conceptualizes candidates as 'party genes' and develops a candidate-based approach to party evolution. Tracking candidates between elections and parties opens up new perspectives on party development in complex and dynamic settings in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and beyond. Based on a new database of 200,000 electoral candidates from over 60 elections across nine CEE democracies, this book presents a groundbreaking study of party evolution using candidate change as an indicator of party change. Allan Sikk and Philipp Köker offer a series of methodological and conceptual advances for the measurement of candidate turnover, party fission and fusion, programmatic change, and party leadership change; the resulting analyses make a significant contribution to the study of CEE party politics as well as to the general scholarship on elections, parties, and political change.Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterized by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu.The series is edited by Nicole Bolleyer, Chair of Comparative Political Science, Geschwister Scholl Institut, LMU Munich and Jonathan Slapin, Professor of Political Institutions and European Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.

Recenzii

Featuring a new database, an innovative theoretical framework, and fascinating findings that may well change the way we think about parties, old and new, this is a great book-and one that will repay reading by scholars of Western and Eastern Europe alike.
Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution is a remarkable book in so many ways. Through the study of 200,000 party candidates in nine countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Sikk and Köker are able to trace the dynamics and manifestations of party change as a perpetual and multidimensional process, and its consequences for party system evolution. With an exciting new dataset on candidates, the book traces a wide range of aspects of party evolution: party entries and exits, fissions and fusions, and the connections with existing parties of new challenger parties. The result is a major piece of Comparative Politics research that contributes to both theoretical reflection and empirical knowledge and that is a must-read for anyone and everyone interested in understanding party politics.
This is a book primarily for data scientists. It will be of interest to scholars of eastern Europe and of party systems more broadly. Recommended.
Party People makes important contributions to the political parties and party systems literature with a new measure of party change, an original party-candidates dataset that covers a long period across nine CEE democracies, and in-depth discussions of different parties/party systems in CEE. And, the contributions and implications of Party People are not unique to CEE. The convincing argument for studying candidate changes to better understand party change is generalizable to all other democracies with political parties and elections and makes this book a must-read for all political party scholars.

Notă biografică

Allan Sikk is an Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His research focuses on European electoral and party politics, research methods, and political and social transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. His work has been published in journals including the European Journal of Political Research and Party Politics, and in edited volumes from Oxford University Press and Routledge.Philipp Köker is a Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science, Leibniz University Hannover. His research focuses on presidential politics, political parties and elections, and comparative constitutional law. He is the author of Presidential Activism and Veto Power in Central and Eastern Europe (Palgrave, 2017) and of contributions to Democratization, East European Politics, Party Politics, the Review of Central and East European Law, and The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics, among others.