Political parties as membership groups

Columbia Law Review

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 813-

  Rosenblum, Nancy L ^a  

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EID: 0043262801     PISSN: 00101958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1123503     Document Type: Article

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1. See, e.g., Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal (Robert K. Fullwinder ed., 1999); Institute for American Values, A Call to Civil Society: Why Democracy Needs Moral Truths (1998); National Commission on Civil Renewal, A Nation of Spectators (1998). By contrast, the National Index of Civic Health, an off-shoot of the National Commission on Civil Renewal does measure political activity as a component of 'civic health,' including work for a party or candidate. See The National Commission on Civic Renewal (last modified Sept. 27, 1999) 〈http://www.puaf.umd.edu/civicrenewal〉.
2. See, e.g., Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal (Robert K. Fullwinder ed., 1999); Institute for American Values, A Call to Civil Society: Why Democracy Needs Moral Truths (1998); National Commission on Civil Renewal, A Nation of Spectators (1998). By contrast, the National Index of Civic Health, an off-shoot of the National Commission on Civil Renewal does measure political activity as a component of 'civic health,' including work for a party or candidate. See The National Commission on Civic Renewal (last modified Sept. 27, 1999) 〈http://www.puaf.umd.edu/civicrenewal〉.
3. See, e.g., Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal (Robert K. Fullwinder ed., 1999); Institute for American Values, A Call to Civil Society: Why Democracy Needs Moral Truths (1998); National Commission on Civil Renewal, A Nation of Spectators (1998). By contrast, the National Index of Civic Health, an off-shoot of the National Commission on Civil Renewal does measure political activity as a component of 'civic health,' including work for a party or candidate. See The National Commission on Civic Renewal (last modified Sept. 27, 1999) 〈http://www.puaf.umd.edu/civicrenewal〉.
4. A notable exception is C.B. Macpherson, who attacks parties for functioning to produce a stable equilibrium that mutes class conflict; party systems are "blurring systems". C.B. Macpherson, The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy 65-66 (1977). On ideal democratic parties, see id. at 113-14. For two contemporary exceptions in democratic theory, see Joshua Cohen, Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy in The Good Polity (Russell Hardin ed., 1991) and Bernard Manin, The Principles of Representative Government 218-34 (1997). In the political science literature, by contrast, political parties have been central, whether the approach is rational choice, institutionalism, or political culture. See Leon Epstein, Political Parties in the American Mold (1986) (reviewing political scientists' commitment to parties as an object of study as well as to their practical usefulness).
5. A notable exception is C.B. Macpherson, who attacks parties for functioning to produce a stable equilibrium that mutes class conflict; party systems are "blurring systems". C.B. Macpherson, The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy 65-66 (1977). On ideal democratic parties, see id. at 113-14. For two contemporary exceptions in democratic theory, see Joshua Cohen, Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy in The Good Polity (Russell Hardin ed., 1991) and Bernard Manin, The Principles of Representative Government 218-34 (1997). In the political science literature, by contrast, political parties have been central, whether the approach is rational choice, institutionalism, or political culture. See Leon Epstein, Political Parties in the American Mold (1986) (reviewing political scientists' commitment to parties as an object of study as well as to their practical usefulness).
6. A notable exception is C.B. Macpherson, who attacks parties for functioning to produce a stable equilibrium that mutes class conflict; party systems are "blurring systems". C.B. Macpherson, The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy 65-66 (1977). On ideal democratic parties, see id. at 113-14. For two contemporary exceptions in democratic theory, see Joshua Cohen, Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy in The Good Polity (Russell Hardin ed., 1991) and Bernard Manin, The Principles of Representative Government 218-34 (1997). In the political science literature, by contrast, political parties have been central, whether the approach is rational choice, institutionalism, or political culture. See Leon Epstein, Political Parties in the American Mold (1986) (reviewing political scientists' commitment to parties as an object of study as well as to their practical usefulness).
7. A notable exception is C.B. Macpherson, who attacks parties for functioning to produce a stable equilibrium that mutes class conflict; party systems are "blurring systems". C.B. Macpherson, The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy 65-66 (1977). On ideal democratic parties, see id. at 113-14. For two contemporary exceptions in democratic theory, see Joshua Cohen, Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy in The Good Polity (Russell Hardin ed., 1991) and Bernard Manin, The Principles of Representative Government 218-34 (1997). In the political science literature, by contrast, political parties have been central, whether the approach is rational choice, institutionalism, or political culture. See Leon Epstein, Political Parties in the American Mold (1986) (reviewing political scientists' commitment to parties as an object of study as well as to their practical usefulness).