Elite–Activist Relationships In Political Parties: A Social Exchange Analysis of Canadian Parties

A model of political parties

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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...

Determining the Presence of Political Parties in Social Circles

We derive the political climate of the social circles of Twitter users using a weakly-supervised approach. By applying random walks over a sub-sample of Twitter’s social graph we infer a distribution indicating the presence of eight Flemish political parties in users’ social circles in the months before the 2014 elections. The graph structure is induced through a combination of connection and r...

Political Parties in a Critical Era

SPECIES OF POLITICAL PARTIES A New Typology

While the literature already includes a large number of party typologies, they are increasingly incapable of capturing the great diversity of party types that have emerged worldwide in recent decades, largely because most typologies were based upon West European parties as they existed in the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Some new party types have been advanced, but in an ad ...