POLS 2910 Lecture 6: Lecture Feb 15 - Politics Outside the State
6 Apr 2017
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While political parties often seem like the focus of politics, how things get allocated outside the market and in the realm of democratic decision-making, much more politics and citizen involvement goes on outside parties. Some political science understandings of politics, particularly institutional approaches, tend to focus much more on political parties and elections as the most obvious institutions of multi-party democracy. But this is less and less the locus of citizen movements and interest group politics or lobbying. Parties have been losing members maybe because there are seldom issue related discussions within parties. The tactics of organization and winning elections sometimes or often takes precedence over intra- party policy discussions. Party members are volunteer labour in maintaining the apparatus of the party and the carrying out of elections. Though increasingly election labour is bought and members have less to do other than contribute money.
