By Ingrid Van Biezen
Ingrid van Biezen offers a finished comparative research of social gathering formation and organizational improvement in lately proven democracies. She makes a speciality of 4 democracies in Southern and East-Central Europe and addresses political events from a cross-regional viewpoint. that includes a wealth of recent info on social gathering association, this ebook presents a invaluable theoretical and empirical contribution to our figuring out of political events in either outdated and new democracies.
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In contrast with authoritarian systems, for communist regimes the mobilization of the masses constituted an essential device for the legitimation of the political system. Despite the formal absence of compulsory voting, communist elections usually showed a remarkably high turnout. 1 above. Due to the hegemony of the Communist Party, these regimes were characterized by an extremely low level of political competition and at the same time displayed a high degree of inclusiveness and participation.
Whereas the societal origins of parties in Western European polities provided them with a relatively stable basis in society, the institutional origins of parties in new democracies may equally frustrate the development of such linkages, with the high salience of institution building during and beyond the democratic transitions having potentially important consequences for the focus of the parties’ activities. This is largely true also for parties which were not entirely new and which had no immediate institutional origin.
5 If both political competition and participation are minimal, the regime is a ‘closed hegemony’, located in the lower-left corner. 1 Typology of political regimes Source: Adapted from Dahl (1971). Participation High 20 Political Parties in New Democracies well as on the opportunities available to the opponents of the incumbent government. In these systems, participation is limited and the population is prohibited from expressing public opposition to the policies and ideology of the ruling leaders, as well as to the major social, economic and political structures as a whole.
