The Study of Party Factions as Competitive Political Organizations

Belloni, Frank; Beller, Dennis C.

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“…Factional structures within the modern national parties are a topic of great interest to the media. Backed by some scholarly work (Belloni & Beller, 1976;Bernstein, 2005;Dominguez, 2005a;Green & Farmer, 2003;Green & Shea, 1996, 1999Polsby, 1981;Reiter, 1981;Shea & Green, 1994), political journalists frequently discuss factionalism and its impact on elections, policy development, and legislative voting. Following are some brief sketches of the types of factions we would expect to observe within the national parties during the period of our study (2004)(2005).…”

Section: Factional Structures In the American Electoratementioning

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Cooperative Party Factions in American Politics

Koger

Masket

Noel

2009

American Politics Research

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What are the primary factions within the Democratic and Republican parties, and to what extent do rival factions cooperate? We address these questions using a unique data set of information sharing between party organizations, media outlets, 527s, and interest groups. Using social network methods, we identify two major information-sharing clusters, or expanded party networks; these networks correspond to a liberal/Democratic grouping and a conservative/Republican grouping. We further identify factions within each party network, but we find a high degree of cooperation between party factions. That is, our data suggest that beneath the intraparty disagreements we observe in primary elections and policy debates there is a subterranean pattern of organizational cooperation.

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Section: Factional Structures In the American Electoratementioning

confidence: 99%

Cooperative Party Factions in American Politics

Koger

Masket

Noel

2009

American Politics Research

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“…On the other hand, Labour was a party of factions that persisted through time and are self-consciously organized with cohesion and discipline. The first wave of factional studies emphasised a “growth theory of parties” in which factions are considered as “pre-party” entities that presage the formation of institutionalised political parties (Belloni and Beller, 1976; Chambers, 1963; Huntington, 1968). The interest in factions dates back to the eighteenth century in the writings of Edmund Burke, David Hume, and James Madison as a precursor of political parties.…”

Section: Rethinking Factionalism and Factional Dynamics In The Philipmentioning

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“…The second wave of factional studies considered factions not as pre-party entities but as products of political divisions that emerged from already developed party organisation. From this perspective, factions are treated as intra-party units (Belloni and Beller, 1976). Aside from the focus on the organisational features of factionalism, these studies emphasised classifications and typologies based on factional size, origin (parliamentary arena or party body), level of organisation (i.e.…”

Section: Rethinking Factionalism and Factional Dynamics In The Philipmentioning

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“…While typologies are useful for heuristic purposes, they are less useful in accounting for the dynamics of change and adaptation. As Belloni and Beller (1976: 448) asserted, “what is significant about factions ultimately is not their structural properties but their activity and its consequences[…] their dynamics and competitive politics.” This shift in focus underscores factional transformation through the interplay among factions, their host parties, and the voters. Conceptualising factionalism as a process implies that factions considered differently (i.e.…”

Section: Rethinking Factionalism and Factional Dynamics In The Philipmentioning

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Factional Dynamics in Philippine Party Politics, 1900–2019

Teehankee

2020

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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The Philippines is a rich case study in the examination of intra-party factions and factionalism in competitive party systems of Southeast Asia. Intra-party factionalism is a recurring, yet understudied, aspect of Philippine party politics. The factional nature of Philippine party politics has endured through time – from bifactionalism of the post-war two-party system to the multi-factionalism of the post-authoritarian multi-party system. All the major political parties that have dominated politics at different historical epochs have experienced intense factional splits. Intra-party factionalism remains a consistent feature of party politics and has become more complicated over time. The number of factions has increased at every period of party system development, while the level of party institutionalization has remained generally low. This article seeks to address this puzzle by tracing the history of political factionalism in the Philippines. It maintains that factional resilience in Philippine party politics is an outcome of combined institutional and structural factors rooted in history. Adopting a historical institutional approach, it will delineate the path-dependent trajectory of intra-party factionalism at critical political junctures. Moreover, it will examine the role of intra-party factionalism in the under-institutionalization of the Philippine party system.

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The impact of within-party and between-party ideological dispersion on fiscal outcomes: evidence from Swiss cantonal parliaments

2014

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International audienceThe impact of the fragmentation of executive and legislative bodies on the level and composition of government expenditure is a political feature that attracted considerable attention from economists. However, previous authors have abstracted from two important concepts : ideology and intra-party politics. In this paper, we explicitly account for these two phenomenons, and make two main contributions. First, we show that both intra-party and interparty ideological dispersion matters in the level of public spending. Therefore, it is incorrect to consider parties as monolithic entities. We also show that ideological dispersion matters especially for current expenditures, and not so much for investment expenditures. To do so, we construct a panel database (2003 to 2011) including data from a survey that quantifies the policy preferences of individual party members that were candidates to federal elections in Switzerland

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The Study of Party Factions as Competitive Political Organizations

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Cooperative Party Factions in American Politics

Factional Dynamics in Philippine Party Politics, 1900–2019

The impact of within-party and between-party ideological dispersion on fiscal outcomes: evidence from Swiss cantonal parliaments

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