Journal article
Associational Party-Building: A Path to Rebuilding Democracy
Columbia Law Review Forum, Vol.122(7), pp.127-176
01 Nov 2022
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Abstract
This Piece argues that Americans need to shed their anti-partyism and take a second look at parties: Political parties are the only civic associations with the capacity to organize at a scale that matters and the only intermediaries that both communicate with voters and govern. The Piece, however, advances a fundamentally different orientation to party reform-one that pushes beyond a view of parties as vehicles for funding elections, policy-demanders, or heuristic brands. Instead, it offers a conception of party strength that emphasizes political parties as organizations, and it offers a blueprint for party reform that emphasizes strengthening the organizational and associational features of political parties. Finally, the Piece offers strategies for associational party-building that do not depend on federal legislative intervention-or any legislative intervention. Throughout, it grounds the theoretical intervention in empirical evidence from recent trends in state and local party-building to show that associational party-building is a feasible direction for party reform. In sum, it explains why Americans need strong parties, how we should conceive of them, and how we might get there.
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- Title
- Associational Party-Building: A Path to Rebuilding Democracy
- Creators
- Tabatha Abu El-Haj - Drexel Univ, Thomas R Kline Sch Law, Law, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USADidi Kuo - Stanford University
- Publication Details
- Columbia Law Review Forum, Vol.122(7), pp.127-176
- Publisher
- Columbia Journal Transnational Law Assoc
- Number of pages
- 50
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991020534938604721
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