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Rethinking Party Reform

Autor Fabio Wolkenstein
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 dec 2019
The functioning of representative democracy crucially depends on political parties that mediate between citizens and the state. It is widely doubted, however, that contemporary parties can still perform this connective role. Taking seriously the ensuing challenges for representative democracy, Rethinking Party Reform advances a normative account of party reform, drawing on both democratic theory and political science scholarship on parties. Moving beyond purely descriptive or causal-analytical perspectives on party reform, the book clarifies on theoretical grounds why party reform is centrally important for the sustainability of established democracies, and what effective party reforms could look like in an age where most citizens look to parties with scepticism and distrust. In doing so, this book underlines in distinctive fashion why scholars and citizens should care about re-inventing and transforming political parties, resisting widespread tendencies of either declaring parties unreformable or theorising them out of the picture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198849940
ISBN-10: 019884994X
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 238 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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His book fills a lacuna in deliberative democracy scholarship, which has been insufficiently attentive to political parties, even though they are (and will likely remain) very powerful democratic actors ... This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of political parties and democracy in general.
Parties can be reformed, Wolkenstein argues - and democracy depends on it. By looking at democracy in action ... and connecting it to a normative ideal of deliberative democracy, Wolkenstein locates a democratic future that works, that makes the promise of popular sovereignty real. This is the kind of book democracy today needs.
In an age of harsh criticism of parties as either corrupt power machines or mere expressions of populist resentment, it is time to fundamentally rethink this major democratic institution. In this brilliant book, Fabio Wolkenstein combines the best of empirical analysis and normative theory to make a case for a deliberative conception of parties. In a unique way, he shows the path toward a renewed practice of party politics which is partisan and activist as well as discursive and rational. A great synthetic achievement that will open many doors for fresh thinking.

Notă biografică

Fabio Wolkenstein is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Aarhus University and Affiliated Researcher in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and the European Journal of Political Theory.