Industrialization and Two-Party Democracy

The Internet and Internal Party Democracy 1 Hans Geser

In a large sample of Swiss local party sections, it is found that the extensity of Email usage correlates with patterns of intraparty influence distribution. On the one hand, executive boards exert more power when they rely internally on electronic communication; on the other hand, vertical email traffic (between leadership and ordinary members).promotes small power shifts in favor of the party...

A Kantian System? Democracy and Third-Party Conflict Resolution

A previous version of this article was presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia. I would like to thank Paul Hensel for generously sharing his ICOW data on territorial claims for this project. I am also grateful to Tom Carsey, Paul Hensel, Ashley Leeds, Doug Lemke, Will Moore, Bill Reed, Dan Reiter, Bruce Russett, Alastair Smith, and Ri...

Party Politics, Political Polarization and the Future of Ethiopian Democracy

FROM SOCIALISM TO SOCIAL DEMOCRACY Party Organization and the Transformation of the Workers’ Party in Brazil

Luis Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s 2002 presidential election brought to power Latin America’s largest leftist party, the Workers’Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores [PT]). The PT won because it moved to the center, and voters regarded this shift as credible. The party’s transformation is puzzling, because political scientists do not expect strategic flexibility in “mass bureaucratic”...

Democracy-Promoting Judicial Review in a Two- Party System: Dealing With Second-Order Preferences*

The tension between judicial review and democratic principles remains the most significant problem in modern constitutional theory. Yet this tension may be resolved in the context of ‘‘political stalemate.’’ Political stalemate arises when both parties in a two-party system find it electorally advantageous to ignore a given political issue, even when majorities favor reform on that issue. This ...