Where’s the Party?: The Decline of Party Institutionalization and What (if Anything) that Means for Democracy

• Steven I. Wilkinson ^[1]
  1. [1] Yale University

     Yale University

     Town of New Haven, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Government and opposition: An international journal of comparative politics, ISSN 0017-257X, Nº. 3, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The Future of Democracy), págs. 420-445
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1017/gov.2015.5
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• Resumen

  • Strong institutionalized parties are often seen as vital for healthy democracies. The Indian case, therefore, represents a strange paradox: many parties are weak, corrupt and personalistic, yet democracy as a whole seems to be thriving, with increasing turnout and apparently strong popular support for democratic procedures and norms. This article explores some of the reasons for this strange outcome and suggests that the existing literature on party institutionalization might need some revision.