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1 online resource |
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Cover ; The Meaning of Partisanship; Copyright ; Dedication ; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1: The Partisan Claim; The Party as Observed: Tendencies in Empirical Study; Normative Roots of the Party Concept; Towards a Reconciliation of the Empirical and Normative; Who is a Partisan?; Conclusion; 2: Partisans and their Doubles; The Spectre of Faction; Order Between Parts; Justice, Partisanship, and Factionalism; More than the Sum of Its Parts?; Conclusion; 3: Partisan Justification; The Constituency of Political Justification |
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The Circumstances of Political Justification and the Partisan CatalystThe Challenges of Persuasion and the Place of Partisan Framing; Pathologies of Partisanship; Conclusion; 4: Partisanship and Political Commitment; The Nature of Commitment; Political Commitment; Partisanship and Political Commitment; The Value of Feasibility ; The Motivational Benefits of Partisanship; The Epistemic Contribution of Partisanship (I): Peer Empowerment; The Epistemic Contribution of Partisanship (II): Developing Hermeneutic Resilience; Problems with Political Commitment; Conclusion; 5: Associative Obligations |
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Partisanship without Special Obligations?Relations of Contract; Relations of Reliance; Relations of Reciprocity; On the Content of Partisan Obligations; Conclusion; 6: Partisanship in Time; Sovereignty of the Living Generation? Presentist Conceptions of the Party; Partisan Ascending Obligations: on a Norm of Fidelity; Partisan Descending Obligations: On a Norm of Sustainability; Objections; Conclusion; 7: Partisan Compromise; Compromise and Compromising on Principles; What Compromise is Not; Partisan Compromise; Compromising by Aggregating Interests; Compromising on Principles |
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The Character of CompromiseConclusion; 8: Revolutionary Partisanship; Revolution in the Name of the People; Partisanship without Parties; A Centralist Alternative? ; A Tribune of the People?; Parties with Movements; Conclusion; 9: Transnational Partisanship; Partisanship and Scope: Is the Nation-State Arena Special?; 1. An Enabling Institutional Environment; 2. Strong Social Ties; 3. Continuity in the Structure of Political Division; Tendencies in Transnational Partisanship; 1. Episodic Partisanship; 2. Partisanship with a Low-Density Network Structure |
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3. Ideationally Delocalized PartisanshipThe Normative Point of Transnational Partisanship; Conclusion; 10: The Shape of a Party; Some Principles of Organization; Principle One: Party Structure should not Mask the Partisan Claim; Principle Two: Party Structure should give Proportionate Voice to its Partisans; Principle Three: Party Structure should Preserve the Constancy of the Partisan Project; Principles of Organization in Practice; Final Remarks; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This volume explores the questions of what a political party is and what counts as political partisanship, drawing upon modern political thought and extending it in the light of contemporary democratic theory and practice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2016) |
| Subject |
Partisanship.
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Political parties -- Philosophy
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
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Partisanship
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Political parties -- Philosophy
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Democracy.
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Political parties.
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Ethics.
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Political theory.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ypi, Lea, 1979- author.
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Oxford University Press, publisher
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| ISBN |
9780191764721 |
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0191764728 |
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0191507113 |
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9780191507113 |
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