POLITICAL CHALLENGES IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: POLITICAL PARTIES

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...

A model of political parties

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Political Parties in a Critical Era

Wiki Collaboration Within Political Parties: Benefits and Challenges

We report here a case study of the only wiki that, at the time of writing, had been significantly used by a political party: the Green Party of Canada’s (GPC’s) Living Platform. The GPC is a quickly growing federal party whose mandate is to address environmental issues and improve the democratic process. The party created the Living Platform to engage Canadian citizens in the development of its...