PARTIES, PARTISANSHIP AND POLITICAL THEORY by Matteo Bonotti (Editor), Veit Bader (Editor) ( 9781317643210 )

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PARTIES, PARTISANSHIP AND POLITICAL THEORY

By:

Matteo Bonotti (Editor), Veit Bader (Editor)

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ISBN 10:

1317643216

ISBN 13:

9781317643210

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

14 April, 2016

Pages:

160

Synopsis:

Political parties have only recently become a subject of investigation in normative political theory. Parties have traditionally been studied by political scientists in their organizational features and in relation to the analysis of related topics such as party systems and electoral systems. Little attention, however, was paid until recently to the normative assumptions that underlie partisanship and party politics. Are parties desirable for democratic politics? How should liberal democracies deal with extremist and/or anti-democratic parties? Do religious parties undermine the secular distinction between religion and politics and is that bad for liberal democracies? These are only some of the many questions that political theorists had left unanswered for a long time. The papers in this collection aim to provide a twofold contribution to the normative analysis of partisanship. On the one hand, they aim to offer a first much needed `state of the art' of the existing research in this area. Many of the contributors have already done extensive research on partisanship and their pieces partly reflect their research expertise and individual approaches to this topic. On the other hand, all pieces move beyond the authors' existing work and represent significant additions to the normative literature on partisanship, thus setting the standards for future research in this area.This book was published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

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