POLI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Party System
9 Nov 2017
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Why: represent different points of view on what society should look like. Simplify, more manageable: represent people, unify similar ideas, articulate interests. Can we have political parties without political parties? vice versa? (yes- russia, china, etc) Functions: coordination (with and within government, with society, between government/ society) > parties as linkage institutions, contesting elections, representation, recruitment & selection. Getting youth involved, get people more interested in politics. Created in early parliaments, (narrow popular basis, divided by ideology/interest: mass = civil society. Citizen activists, want to reduce power of elites, in uence comes from number of supporters, came from masses: others: Catch-all parties: transformation of mass parties (1950-now: increased role of professionals (over members) 3 factors determine interaction: 1) how many parties, 2) which parties exist, 3) how do they behave? (strategies) What determines how party systems look: cleavages (lipset/rokkan): political parties re ect divisions in society.
