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6 Feb 2012, 7:51 pm by Ethan Leib
 Here is the abstract for "Why Party Democrats Need Popular Democracy and Popular Democrats Need Parties:" Too often, popular political power—whether it is in the form of direct democracy or other more innovative forays in participatory or deliberative democracy—presents itself principally as a counterweight to the political power parties wield. [read post]
The Chairman of the Civic Party Alan Leong announced Saturday the pro-democracy party will disband. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 1:10 pm by John McFarland
From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835-1840: “Political parties in the United States, like political parties everywhere, feel a need to rally around an individual in order to communicate ore effectively with the masses. [read post]
17 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
On a range of issues, the Republican Party has embraced a kind of messianic politics. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 3:10 am by D Daniel Sokol
Arthur Guerra Filho, King’s College London, Dickson Poon School of Law, Students and CAPES, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior has written Party Funding, Competition Law and the Protection of Political Democracy. [read post]
12 Jul 2023, 3:55 am by Dan Tokaji
APSA and Protect Democracy have issued a new report entitled “More than Red and Blue: Political Parties and American Democracy. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 11:22 pm
The 65-year-old activist, who has pressed for democracy since the 1970s, was tried [AP report] in Hangzhou City Intermediate People's Court, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, on charges relating to his organization of the China Democracy Party [official [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 2:31 am by Lawrence Solum
We argue that institutional designers can use parties to solve some of the characteristic problems of popular democracy, and popular democracy to improve the functioning of party democracy. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 5:30 am by Alexander Pirang
This key premise is epitomized by the principle of a “militant democracy,” meaning that a robust democracy ought to be able to fight fire with fire in order to persist. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 7:53 pm
In the other case (Chinese democracy), democracy may be embedded in the exercise of democratic and representative practices within the institutions of state, and as a critical part of the operation of the democratic functions of the party in power in one-party (or vanguard party) constitutional states. [read post]
8 May 2022, 7:35 pm by Omar Ha-Redeye
The problem is that there is already a party in Ontario with a very similar name, the None of the Above Direct Democracy Party (NOTA), which was founded in 2014. [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 7:35 am by Henry Farrell, Bruce Schneier
If no one really knows which other political parties might form, what they might stand for, and what support they might get, that itself is a significant barrier to those parties ever forming. [read post]
17 Nov 2022, 12:15 pm by Tom Smith
Behold a case study in how Democrats change the rules to limit political competition and entrench one-party, public-union rule. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 6:00 am by JB
  At the same time, most of the fledgling democracies do not have as clear a party with a mandate as did South Africa, India or Mexico.JB: What keeps political leaders from just replacing judges with their political allies so that they can do what they want? [read post]
23 Aug 2018, 6:22 am by Mark Graber
Alexander Aleinikoff), populism (Samuel Issacharoff) and racism/ethnocentrism  (Desmond King/Rogers Smith), as well as a studies on the increasing weaknesses of political parties across the universe of constitutional democracy (Kim Lane Scheppele) and the role of constitutional design in maintaining or subverting constitutional democracy (Sujit Choudhry). [read post]
21 Nov 2022, 6:34 am by Tabatha Abu El-Haj
… Continue reading The post “Associational Party-Building: A Path to Rebuilding Democracy” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
According to the latest-Party-line-thing machinery, RFK, Jr., is now a “threat to democracy. [read post]
13 Jun 2017, 1:07 pm by Steve Gottlieb
Members of Trump’s party control both houses of Congress where their commitment to their party compromises their commitment to democracy. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 7:46 am by Matt Cooper
Hasen explained that subsequent courts have implicitly applied the democracy canon (without using that term) largely in three types of cases: (1) vote-counting cases, (2) voter eligibility cases, and (3) “candidate or party competitiveness cases,” meaning situations in which the state has prevented a particular candidate or party from appearing on the ballot. [read post]