In person icon Political Parties: Necessary Evil or Quintessential to Representative Democracy?

Abstract

Despite the transformations and disfigurements of representative democracy there are also important continuities. One is the continuing importance of political parties. The papers in this panel explore the place of political parties in the study of political representation. They include studies of political parties and the representative disconnect and more broadly a defence of partisanship. The papers also look within political parties and consider the role and place of party members. They consider intra-party democracy and the preferences of party members with regard to internal decision-making as well as the views of citizens on intra-party democracy.

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Party Members’ Power: Conjoint Experiment on Parties’ Decision-Making	View Paper Details
In Defense of Partisanship in Deliberations	View Paper Details
Do More Members Make a Better Party? Citizen’s Perspective on Intra-Party Democracy in Australia and the UK	View Paper Details
Political Parties and the Representative Disconnect	View Paper Details
Implementing Intra-Party Democracy: The Determinants of the Democratic Party Structure	View Paper Details