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The Limits of Partisan Prejudice
Partisanship increasingly factors into the behavior of Americans in both political and nonpolitical situations, yet the bounds of partisan prejudice are largely unknown. In this paper, we systematically evaluate the limits of partisan prejudice using a series of five studies situated within a typology of prejudice. We find that partisan prejudice predicts suppression of hostile rhetoric toward one’s own party, avoidance of members of the opposition, and a desire for preferential treatment for one’s own party. While these behaviors may cause incidental or indirect harm to the opposition, we find that even the most affectively polarized—those with the strongest disdain for the opposition—are no more likely to intentionally harm the opposition than those with minimal levels of affective polarization.
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Constructing China’s Identity in Zambian Politics
The paper argues that Zambian political parties have ascribed convenient identities to China to satisfy their quest for, and in some cases retention of, political office. Ruling parties realise the ideological and economic importance of China and hence support Sino-Zambian ties. Opposition parties denounce China to inflame the sensibilities of ordinary Zambians who feel threatened, especially by the recent increase of Chinese migrants who are perceived as threats to Zambian small scale entrepreneurship. The paper concludes that it is convenient for opposition parties in Zambia to construct and promote a negative identity of China to win the support of ordinary and disillusioned Zambians. The Patriotic Front (PF), Zambia's ruling party since 2011, has shown that, once in power, parties are more likely to change their stance on China because of pragmatic ambitions and a sense of resignation as China will increasingly be involved in, and influence Zambia’s political and economic future.
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From Protest to Parties
Why do strong opposition party organizations emerge in some democratizing countries, while those in others remain weak or quickly fragment on ethnic lines? This book offers an explanation for why opposition parties vary in organizational form, cohesion, and mobilizational reach. The book draws upon an in-depth analysis of three countries in Anglophone Africa: Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Kenya. Though these countries share similar institutional frameworks, including electoral rules, party development has taken a different route in each. The explanation emphasizes the ways in which historical legacies interact with strategic choices to produce different trajectories of party development. In terms of the role of history, the book argues that strong opposition parties are more likely where authoritarian states relied on alliances with corporate actors like labor. In these contexts, ruling parties armed their allies, providing them with mobilizing structures and political resources that could later be used to challenge the state. Secondly, opposition parties are more likely to maintain their organizational cohesion and the commitment of activists when they use strategies and appeals that escalate conflict and reorient social boundaries around the lines of partisan affiliation. Polarization forges stronger parties, but it also increases the likelihood of violence and authoritarian retrenchment. The book provides an explanation of why democratization in the hybrid regimes of the late Third Wave may prove more conflictual and more protracted than earlier transitions to democracy.
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Underdog politics : the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives
\"In the first comprehensive study of the subject in decades, political scholar Matthew Green disputes the conventional belief that the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives is an unimportant political player. Examining the record of the House minority party from 1970 to the present, and drawing from a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data, Green shows how and why the minority seeks to influence legislative and political outcomes and demonstrates that the party's efforts can succeed. The result is a fascinating appreciation of what the House minority can do and why it does it, providing readers with new insights into the workings of this famously contentious legislative chamber\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Political Oppositions in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes: A State-of-the-Field(s) Review
Political opposition has long been one of the most dramatically understudied elements of real-world politics in contemporary democratic and authoritarian regimes. The past decade or so has, however, witnessed an upsurge of new opposition research that begs for a major state-of-the-field review. Interestingly, recent scholarship has focused more on manifestations of opposition in authoritarian and hybrid than in democratic systems, which indicates a latent reconceptualization of political opposition (setting aside older distinctions between regime-loyal opposition and regime-challenging forms of resistance, dissidence and contestation). With a focus on party-based forms of opposition, which have been widely considered to mark the most effective form of opposition, this review article takes stock and highlights key issues for future research as well as some inherent obstacles to the emergence of a more integrated field of cross-regime opposition studies.
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A HISTORICAL STUDY OF DRAVIDA MUNNETRA KAZHAGAM'S PROMISES, PLANS AND PROGRAMMES IN M. KARUNANIDHI MINISTRY
The aim of this article is to highlight the leading political party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's Promises, plans and programmes in Tamil Nadu. Tamil traditionalism, absence of the concept of idolisation in the Party, wide mass contact, attachment and allegiance of the rank and file of the Party, the unity and solidarity resulting from absence of groupism or factionalism of any nature, the administrative set up of the party and the easily understandable and pragmatic programmes all these formed the basis for the Party to plan its policies in a democratic manner while the Party got popular verdict, to form the government in 1967
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