competition between partisan projects is often cited as a building block of any representative democracy. While French-speaking and Anglo-Saxon literatures have understood differently the link between partisan competition and public politics, parties are everywhere the poor relative of public policy...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebCet article aims to analyse the relationship with advertising and secrecy in defining political identities on the basis of the socialist example. This political family has often put forward his belief in a rational, collectively developed policy, to speak loudly, without shame...

This article analyses the effects of radicalisation processes on the activism of Chilean PC members from the late 1980s. We show that the adoption of an insurgency strategy under the authoritarian regime has led to the weakening of partisan control over the militant body and to the formation of a ne...

Multiple manifestations of ownership of digital technologies within political parties and by candidate teams have been publicised in recent years through the reference to the Barack Obama presidential campaign in 2008 (Kreiss, 2012; Pène, (2013) 2 or, in France, the initiatives taken in 2012 to mobi...

The central theme of the Republic in progress (LREM) is the ‘Renewal of French political life’. This far-reaching renewal of political practices requires the recruitment of candidates from civil society for the 2017 parliamentary elections. An analysis of the profiles of LREM’s 529 official candidat...

Introduction Yohann Aucante, Alexandre Dézé, Nicolas Sauger• The cartel party in question• Presentation of the model• The criticisms of the model• Plan and organisation of the work• Remedies I — THEORICAL AND empirical ENJEUX Chapter 1/LA TRANSFORMATION OF ORGANISATION AND DEMOCRATIAL MEODS IN PARTI...

starting from the 2000s in Montreal, four citizens’ summits have allowed citizens organised and not organised to discuss urban issues and participatory democracy from a “civic, independent and non-partisan perspective”. Inspired by the concept of the right to the city developed by Henri Lefebvre, th...

The revolutions of Eastern induced fragmentation of States were accompanied internally by a revival of ethnic parties, which is not without its problems in political democracy. Transitions and even more democratic consolidation are emerging a double phenomenon of interaction between actors and the s...

As part of the renewal of the doctrin regarding federal unions, I suggest a definition of the federal compact which is based on the study of the German, the American and the Swiss federal systems in order to find a legal classification for the European treaties. The federal compact is an act volunta...

Competition between partisan projects is often cited as a constituent element of any representative democracy. While French-speaking and Anglo-Saxon literatures have understood differently the link between partisan competition and public politics, parties are everywhere the poor relative of public p...

Since the 1920s, red cities have been portrayed with passion. For their critics, these ‘Soviet’ French cities embrigged communal childhood, diverted local finances for partisan purposes and alienated ‘municipal democracy’. For their supporters, they had to serve the communist ideal and celebrate the...

When questioning the weight of external actors in the revolutionary changes, the case of German political foundations calls for an extension of the time scale of analysis. Strongly marked by the post-war institutional context, foundations have been able to develop their strategies of partisan rappro...

Macedonian political parties have been relatively little studied. In Macedonia, political system transformation has been mainly dominated by state building issues, problems related to Albanian minority integration and the process of designing a new constitutional arrangement. Nevertheless, political...

The United States Congress is often disparaged including by its own members. The critics of the institution decry the gridlock on Capitol Hill and Congress's alleged inability to deal with the challenges of the modern world. The unpopularity of today's Congress calls into question its ability to rep...

Propaganda was increasingly perceived by the public in France during the 20th century as a partisan thought of suspicion. It has appeared to be dangerous for democracy as a system of interpretation of facts driven by doctrinal will. The Republican State chose to move away from it to assert democracy...

Christian Democratic parties are also central to the study of the history of European political parties and to the theory of political cleavances.The emergence of Christian Democratic parties in Western Europe marked a real transformation after the Second World War. However, neither the Italian Demo...

In 2012 and 2014, major changes to the Quebec Electoral Law transformed the way political parties finance themselves in Quebec. The maximum individual contribution has been drastically reduced and public funding of political parties has been increased. This quantitative case study attempts to measur...