Emancipatory struggles and their political organisation: How political parties and social movements respond to changing notions of emancipation

Political Parties and Political Marketing ‘ Strategies ’

This conceptual paper focuses on political marketing „strategies‟ in the context of major British political parties. There is consideration of the underlying drivers that are encouraging the adoption of the political marketing approach. It is debated whether political parties actually have political marketing „strategies‟. The difference between political marketing and political campaign strate...

Political Parties and Democracy

A central claim of democratic theory is that democracy induces governments to be responsive to the preferences of the people. Political parties organize politics in every modern democracy, and some observers claim that parties are what induce democracies to be responsive. Yet, according to others, parties give voice to extremists and reduce the responsiveness of governments to the citizenry. Th...

T ay lo r & F ra nc is How Political Parties Respond to Voters

How Political Parties Respond to Voters focuses specifically on the question of interest aggregation: do parties today perform that function? If so, how – and if not, in what different ways do they seek to show themselves responsive to the electorate? Until now, such changes have been more widely studied in the United States than in other democracies; this fascinating book studies the question ...

How Should STFM Respond to Political and Societal Issues?

The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine has always been an organization with a deep sense of social responsibility that has valued diversity of people, ideas, and opinions and discussion of important political and societal issues. With the diversity and passions of its members, the STFM Board is commonly asked to take stands on controversial political or social issues. This has led to some i...

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