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Party Reform : The Causes, Challenges, and Consequences of by Anika Gauja

By Anika Gauja

Party Reform is a brand new comparative research of the politics of social gathering association. The booklet presents a unique viewpoint in celebration scholarship and develops the concept that of 'reform' as targeted from evolutionary and incremental methods of celebration swap. As an final result, reform is captured in planned and infrequently very public alterations to events' organizational ideas and methods. As a method, it bargains a celebration the chance to 're-brand' and publicly adjust its photo, to stress yes strategic priorities over others, and to change relationships of strength in the social gathering.

Analyzing the final ten years of occasion reform throughout a handful of verified democracies together with Australia, the uk, Canada and Germany, the ebook examines what motivates political events to adopt organizational reforms and the way they cross approximately this approach. get together Reform unearths how events' perceptions of the social developments during which they function form reform agendas, and the way this pertains to aggressive calls for and pressures from in the occasion for organizational switch. as well as the motivations for reform, the ebook is both fascinated with the method of reform. The e-book demonstrates that declining get together memberships have had a basic impression at the means during which political events 'sell' organizational reform: as a part of a broader rhetoric of democratization, of re-engagement, and of modernization dropped at diversified audiences - either inner and exterior to the celebration. The chapters concentration quite on 4 key reform tasks that start to blur the conventional barriers of celebration: the creation of primaries, the altering that means of get together club, issues-based on-line coverage improvement, and group organizing campaigns.

Using those state-of-the-art advancements as fundamental examples, this ebook presents a framework for realizing why, and the way, reforms happen, and what the implications could be - when it comes to how we predict approximately glossy political events as autos for participation and illustration.

Comparative Politics is a sequence for researchers, lecturers, and scholars of political technology that bargains with modern govt and politics. worldwide in scope, books within the sequence are characterized by means of a tension on comparative research and powerful methodological rigour. The sequence is released in organization with the eu Consortium for Political study. for additional info stopover at: www.ecprnet.eu.

The sequence is edited by means of Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political technological know-how, Universite libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the guts for the research of Democracy, Leuphana collage; and Susan Scarrow, Chair of the dep. of Political technological know-how, collage of Houston.

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This is, however, an expectation that needs to be empirically investigated. Harmel and Janda (1994; citing Janda 1980) argue that there is ‘a tendency in the literature to interpret party change as “reform” and to assume that reforms function as intended—despite reformers’ mixed record of success’. The multi-level framework developed above does indicate the combination of conditions in which a reform is more likely to be successful, however, this study does not assume that reforms will necessarily succeed, nor does it try to develop a measure of success.

However, if increasing participation is conceptualized in terms of more individualized practices such as one-member-one-vote ballots or consultation exercises, then these two motivations could be reconciled in practice. The former mechanism, for example, also benefits from the symbolic practice of voting, which in the context of publicly advertised reforms, can be just as important as the effectiveness of the process (see Faucher 2015a: 801). The potential tensions between these two motivating factors have important implications for how we think about party reform, and how different motivations constrain the consequent design of institutional reforms.

However, this is a misleadingly simple target. As the case studies show, there are three distinct themes that emerge when organizational reform is used to respond to membership decline, which potentially create a series of internal tensions. The first is that reform is directed towards increasing the size of the membership. The second involves reform as a way in which to strengthen the role of members, or to address a breakdown in intraparty democracy. The third variation involves a combination of these two different strategies.

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