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Democracy Beyond Parties
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Center for the Study of Democracy; 05-06
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MAIR, Peter, Democracy Beyond Parties, Center for the Study of Democracy, 05-06 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/3291
Abstract
This paper is concerned primarily with the way in which the changing character
of political parties impacts upon their standing, legitimacy, and effectiveness.
We see an emerging notion of democracy that is being steadily stripped
of its popular component–a notion of democracy without a demos. As I try to
show in this paper, much of this has to do with the failings of political parties.
I am not suggesting that there has been a wholesale failure of parties; rather,
I am seeking to draw attention to an ongoing process in which there are party
failings, and in which democracy itself tends to adapt and change to these failings.
This process then provokes its own momentum, in which parties become
steadily weaker, and in which democracy becomes even more stripped down.