Political Parties and Agenda Setting
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781035318513.00025" target="_blank" >10.4337/9781035318513.00025</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Political Parties and Agenda Setting
Original language description
The chapter addresses the relationship between political parties and agenda setting by offering a more complex perspective on political parties. Political parties should be considered not only as unitary collective actors but also as organizations embedded in the political institutions of a given polity. Thus, a political party represents a policy actor in the policy process as well as an arena that links party-related and encompasses party-related elements of political life (political ideology, election programs, and so on).First, we sum up the major developments in this field. Then, we identify the main approaches addressing political parties as unitary collective actors (the normative liberal model, socio-economic and ideational models, and multivariate models including the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and the Multiple Streams Framework), address the party polarization issue, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this dominant perception.Consequently, we suggest broadening the perspective to consider political parties as organizations. We propose to examine intra-party dynamics, ideological filters, and party dominant goals using the three party "faces" concept (party on the ground, party central office, and party in public office) from Katz and Mair's "cartel party" theory and dominant party goals (vote-, office-, policy-, democracy-seeking) from Harmel and Janda's integrated theory of party goals and party change.Finally, we outline a research agenda emphasizing the institutional, ideological, and actor-related dimensions of parties in agenda setting. By emphasizing this neglected perspective, we aim to enhance our understanding of the role and influence of political parties on agenda setting.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50602 - Public administration
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting
ISBN
978-1-03-531850-6
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
201-218
Number of pages of the book
494
Publisher name
Edward Elgar Publishing
Place of publication
Cheltenham:
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