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Democracy Without Political Parties?
Democracy Without Political Parties?
Introduction
Political parties are fundamental to the operation of modern representative democracies. They go together like Barbie and Ken, Shaggy and Scooby, milk and cookies – or at least they used to. What happens to democracy when parties no longer function?
Looking around the globe, prior to COVID-19, democracy seemed as precarious as it had been for many decades and the breakdown of mainstream parties seemed to be at the heart of that. The party model that came to dominate mature democracies for decades, that of the electoral-professional, rational-centrist party, has quite suddenly been struggling to hold on to power. Long-term declines in party membership, voter turnout and trust, have recently produced political tipping points. Whether left or ...
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