PSCI 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Consensus Decision-Making

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2101
• Professor: Daniel Preece

Document Summary

Additionally, the decision controlling function of referendums may be further divided into. Political parties - formal organizations that seek legislative and/or executive power and are willingly to abide by the constraints or election laws and parliamentary rules. Four key party functions: mechanism to aggregating and mediating competing interests, recruitment and government formation, political socialization, representation. The parliamentary wing consisting of the party leader and caucus. The extra-parliamentary wing, which consists of the wider national membership and includes structures such as the national executive, national office, and local constituency associations. Professionalization of political parties and the so-called iron law of oligarchy. Shift from doctrinal to brokerage parties --> ndp in canada. Cartel or virtual parties (leadership controlled party that orients mps towards arty leader) Organizational structure adopted by party may be defined (in-part) by the ideology of party members. Brokerage-style parties tend towards leader driven organizational structures.