Political party survival after collapse: the Argentine radical party in comparative perspective
<p>This dissertation adopts an elite-based approach to build a portable theory of party survival and national revival. The basic argument is that each stem from a process, by which elites arrive at certain pivotal decisions in the aftermath of a massive electoral defeat. To avoid breaking down...
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| description | <p>This dissertation adopts an elite-based approach to build a portable theory of party survival and national revival. The basic argument is that each stem from a process, by which elites arrive at certain pivotal decisions in the aftermath of a massive electoral defeat. To avoid breaking down due to mass defections, a party must continue to provide its ambitious politicians with adequate reasons to stay – namely, in the form of crucial electoral advantages. However, this dissertation also breaks new ground by asking how these very same elites can leverage their continued access to such advantages and channel them toward a revival in national politics. To do this, it attempts to open the “black box” of party organization to uncover the characteristics of a party that help resolve an additional and central problem of survival: party reform under conditions of voter rejection. I argue that for a revival to occur, politicians require more than a safe resource perch to ride out the storm. They need both autonomy from the central leadership to devise new electoral strategies, as well as an organizational framework that protects their reform efforts and keeps members bound to any deliberative decisions that may stem out of the internal reform process. </p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a96f2622-848e-4ef4-87d1-64bd973a2e732022-03-27T03:08:32ZPolitical party survival after collapse: the Argentine radical party in comparative perspectiveThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:a96f2622-848e-4ef4-87d1-64bd973a2e73Latin American StudiesComparative governmentDemocracy studiesComparative politicsEnglishHyrax Deposit2021Maynard, SL<p>This dissertation adopts an elite-based approach to build a portable theory of party survival and national revival. The basic argument is that each stem from a process, by which elites arrive at certain pivotal decisions in the aftermath of a massive electoral defeat. To avoid breaking down due to mass defections, a party must continue to provide its ambitious politicians with adequate reasons to stay – namely, in the form of crucial electoral advantages. However, this dissertation also breaks new ground by asking how these very same elites can leverage their continued access to such advantages and channel them toward a revival in national politics. To do this, it attempts to open the “black box” of party organization to uncover the characteristics of a party that help resolve an additional and central problem of survival: party reform under conditions of voter rejection. I argue that for a revival to occur, politicians require more than a safe resource perch to ride out the storm. They need both autonomy from the central leadership to devise new electoral strategies, as well as an organizational framework that protects their reform efforts and keeps members bound to any deliberative decisions that may stem out of the internal reform process. </p> |
| spellingShingle | Latin American Studies Comparative government Democracy studies Comparative politics Maynard, SL Political party survival after collapse: the Argentine radical party in comparative perspective |
| title | Political party survival after collapse: the Argentine radical party in comparative perspective |
| title_full | Political party survival after collapse: the Argentine radical party in comparative perspective |
| title_fullStr | Political party survival after collapse: the Argentine radical party in comparative perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Political party survival after collapse: the Argentine radical party in comparative perspective |
| title_short | Political party survival after collapse: the Argentine radical party in comparative perspective |
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| topic | Latin American Studies Comparative government Democracy studies Comparative politics |
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