7. The Reality behind the Monolith: Local Party Behavior in Industry and Agriculture

More Shadow than Substance

10.23943/princeton/9780691159010.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Leah Wright Rigueur

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

African Americans ◽

Substance P ◽

National Committee ◽

Party Leaders ◽

Political Ideas ◽

Black Republicans ◽

State And Local ◽

American Party ◽

Local Party

This chapter studies how, as the 1970s progressed, black Republicans were able to claim clear victories in their march toward equality: the expansion of the National Black Republican Council (NBRC); the incorporation of African Americans into the Republican National Committee (RNC) hierarchy; scores of black Republicans integrating state and local party hierarchies; and individual examples of black Republican success. African American party leaders could even point to their ability to forge a consensus voice among the disparate political ideas of black Republicans. Despite their ideological differences, they collectively rejected white hierarchies of power, demanding change for blacks both within the Grand Old Party (GOP) and throughout the country. Nevertheless, black Republicans quickly realized that their strategy did not reform the party institution.

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Parties’ Preferences for Office and Policy Goals

Games ◽

10.3390/g12010006 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 6

Author(s):

Anna Bassi

Keyword(s):

Rational Choice ◽

Choice Models ◽

Comprehensive Analysis ◽

Government Formation ◽

Expert Survey ◽

Policy Goals ◽

Preference Ratings ◽

The Government ◽

Party Behavior ◽

Survey Protocol

Although parties’ preferences for office and policy goals have been featured by many rational choice models of party behavior and a majority of coalition theories, the literature still lacks a measure and a comprehensive analysis of how parties’ preferences vary among parties and across countries. This study aims to fill this gap by presenting the results of an original expert survey protocol, which finds that parties pursue both goals simultaneously as office is sought both as and an end and as a means to affect policy, and that the degree to which they prefer policy versus office objectives varies across parties and countries. I provide an application of the preference ratings for policy versus office in the context of government formation, by using the ratings to solve for and predict the equilibrium coalition that should have formed in Spain after the 2015 elections. The government predicted by the model matches the government that formed, providing evidence of the ability of the preference ratings to generate reliable predictions of the composition of government coalitions.

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“Every Family Has Its Freak”: Perceptions of Collaboration in Occupied Soviet Russia, 1943–1948

Slavic Review ◽

10.2307/3649911 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 64 (4) ◽

pp. 747-770 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Jeffrey W. Jones

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Significant Degree ◽

Soviet Society ◽

Complex Issue ◽

Post Cold War ◽

Public Meetings ◽

Southern Russia ◽

Party Press ◽

Soviet Russia ◽

Local Party

Based on archival and other materials from Rostov-on-Don, a major industrial center in southern Russia, Jeffrey W.Jones examines the different representations of collaboration apparent in Soviet society during and after the war. Jones analyzes several different levels of discourse: inner party deliberations and reports on the subject, depictions of collaborators and their actions in the local party press, questions and comments of workers and others at public meetings as recorded by party officials, and Cold War and post-Cold War era memoirs and interviews. These sources overlap to a significant degree but deal with the complex issue of collaboration in nuanced ways, stressing different themes and asking different questions. The evidence reveals a subtle divide in the perception and representation of this issue between party leaders and the population at large while also showing that the party's public assurances of cossack loyalty contrasted with a widely shared assumption of cossack disloyalty.

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Measuring the Impact of Local Party Activity on the General Election Vote

Public Opinion Quarterly ◽

10.1086/267182 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 372 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Phillips Cutright

Keyword(s):

General Election ◽

The Impact ◽

Local Party

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Research on the Best Assessment Subjects for the Environmental Protection Performance of Local Party and Government Officials

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.228-229.963 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 228-229 ◽

pp. 963-967

Author(s):

Jing Kun Zhou

Keyword(s):

Performance Assessment ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Analytical Model ◽

Government Officials ◽

Political Rationality ◽

Professional Assessment ◽

Guiding Principles ◽

Relative Analysis ◽

Local Party

This paper first of all provides the guiding principles for choosing assessment subjects for the environmental protection performance of local party and government officials: effectiveness, scientificalness and objectivity. Effectiveness includes usefulness, inexpensiveness, and urgency; scientificalness includes professionality, systematicness and representativeness; objectivity includes independence, political rationality and authority. After that, starting from these guiding principles, this paper discusses the process of how to choose the best performance assessment subjects according to the analytical model of stakeholder assessment subjects. And then characteristics of potential assessment subjects for the environmental protection performance of local party and government officials are analyzed. At last, through the analytical model of stakeholder assessment subjects and characteristics of potential assessment subjects for the environmental protection performance of local party and government officials, this paper makes a relative analysis of the best assessment subjects for the environmental protection performance of local party and government officials, and gets a conclusion that professional assessment institutions are the best choice.

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Afiliasi Partai Aceh Ke Partai Nasional (Studi Kasus: Keikutsertaan Kader Partai Aceh Dalam Partai Nasional Pada Pemilu Legislatif DPR RI 2019)

Jurnal Public Policy ◽

10.35308/jpp.v6i1.1658 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 25

Author(s):

Rahmad Saputra ◽

Muradi Muradi ◽

Leo Agustino

Keyword(s):

National Level ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

The Political ◽

Political Affiliation ◽

National Party ◽

Party Affiliation ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Legislative Elections ◽

The Relationship ◽

Local Party

The purpose of this study is to look at how the relationship between local parties and national parties has not been revealed publicly, analyze the objectives of Aceh Party affiliation with national parties in the 2019 legislative elections and Analyze what strategies Aceh parties play in affiliating with national parties in the 2019 legislative elections. This study uses a qualitative approach with descriptive methods. Data collection techniques to be carried out in this study consisted of semi-structured interviews, observations, and documentation studies to find out the purpose of the political affiliation of Aceh party cadres to national parties. Through this research, it was found that the Aceh Party continues to strive to consistently fight for the interests of Aceh, especially in the issue of special autonomy that has not yet been realized. Then the Aceh Party as a local party that won the General Election in Aceh since 2009 has continued to try to maintain the acquisition of seats and expand the interests of the party, especially at the national level by placing its cadres in the national party.

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