When Movements Anchor Parties

Schlozman, Daniel

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“…Few, if any, other organized interests have the capacity to move as easily between the economic and political domains, to organize the identities of individuals as workers and as politically engaged citizens, and to represent the interests of working-and middle-class Americans in both elections and public policy battles. there is a long line of work documenting both the post-New Deal anchoring relationship between unions and the Democratic Party, as well as how unions boost workers' political and civic skills and interests; encourage members to participate in politics; provide considerable financing of Democrat political campaigns; and lobby on a range of leftleaning public policy issues at the local, state, and national levels (see, for instance, Dark 1999;Schickler 2016;Schlozman 2015; on unions and other political outcomes, see, for instance, Ahlquist 2017; Ahlquist and Levi 2013;Gilens 2012;Kim and Margalit 2017;Leighley and Nagler 2007;Verba, Schlozman, and Brady 1995).…”

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Asymmetric Partisan Polarization, Labor Policy, and Cross-State Political Power-Building

Hertel‐Fernandez¹

2019

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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As the Republican Party has moved to the Right, conservative politicians have become more comfortable viewing policy as a means of demobilizing their political adversaries. In this article, I show how conservative activists within the Republican Party have leveraged cutbacks to union rights to weaken their political opponents. This case study thus reveals the role of policy feedback strategies in asymmetric partisan polarization. It also illustrates lessons about the conditions under which policy feedback can durably shift the distribution of power in America’s fragmented polity. These insights underscore how the success of policy feedback effects depends not just on the initial passage of policies in one city or state, but on the ability of political actors to organize in multiple venues simultaneously. In particular, they highlight the importance of organizing at the cross-state level given the substantial political authority of states.

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2019

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“…When they seek influence over those in power over the long term, they invest in organizational structure, develop a chain of command and a division of labour among professional lobbyists, and so on. 13 Political parties are organizations that aim to get control of government through competitive elections, to wield the state's authoritative political power to make collectively binding decisions. Their function is to mobilize, represent voters and govern.…”

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“…Social movements can become 'anchoring groups' within a political party, reshaping its long-term trajectories in ideological and policy development. 53 When parties are strong, the party leaders and pragmatists remain the gatekeepers and although they lose some autonomy vis-à-vis the new faction, the anchoring movement gives up much more autonomy, insofar as it must de-radicalize, shed the more fundamentalist adherents, ideological purism, forgoing autonomous action and in short, renouncing 'the best' in favour of the good. 54 Party group alliance and incorporation accordingly elevates group moderates permitting the party to continue to appeal to the median voter, over time.…”

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“…53 When parties are strong, the party leaders and pragmatists remain the gatekeepers and although they lose some autonomy vis-à-vis the new faction, the anchoring movement gives up much more autonomy, insofar as it must de-radicalize, shed the more fundamentalist adherents, ideological purism, forgoing autonomous action and in short, renouncing 'the best' in favour of the good. 54 Party group alliance and incorporation accordingly elevates group moderates permitting the party to continue to appeal to the median voter, over time. The party thereby gains important resources (time, money, access to networks) and votes while movements get results aligned with their norms and ideologies.…”

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“…5 Alternatively, movements can ally with established major parties and become powerful factions within them. 6 However, as McAdam has shown drawing on the American experience of the civil rights movement and the New Left, a risk is the movementization of parties and extremist polarization of politics. Important social movements typically generate countermovements.…”

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2019

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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This article focuses on the relationship between social movements and political parties in the context of populist challenges to constitutional democracy. There are many reasons for the current plight of democracy but I focus here on one aspect: the decline of mainstream political parties, the emergence of new forms of populist movement parties and the general crisis of political representation in long consolidated Western democracies. This article analyses the specific political logic and dynamics of social movements – the logic of influence, and distinguishes it from that of political parties – the logic of power. It addresses transformations in movements, parties and their relationships. It looks at the shifts in movement and party types that constitute the political opportunity structure for the emergence of new populist movement party forms and relationships, focusing on the hollowing out and movement-ization of political parties. Contemporary populist movement parties are not the cause of the hollowing out or movement-ization of political parties. Rather they are a response to the crisis of political representation exemplified by hollow parties and cartel parties. But it is my thesis that thanks to its specific logic, populism fosters the worst version of movement party relationships, undermining the democratic functions of both.

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements

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