Primaries and Parties: what kind of primaries and for which party model?
Journal title PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO
Author/s Antonio Floridia
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/1
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 35-54 File size 267 KB
DOI 10.3280/PACO2011-001002
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This contribution focuses on the relationship between different party models and the use of primaries as a tool for candidate selection. This topic is linked to the future of parties in contemporary democracies, as well as to their (according to the chosen interpretative approach) crisis, evolution, or degeneration. In the first part, some features of the theoretical analysis about party changes and their internal democratization are considered. Then, the various possible primary models are outlined and the relationship between them and party organization models are analyzed, with particular reference to the Italian experience. The conclusion is that these various relationships are founded on a different conception of democracy, and on a different view of parties’ role and functions in it. On the one hand, there is a view of democracy where parties are elitist organizations and mere electoral machines. On the other hand, there is a renewed view of representative democracy, founded on a virtuous circularity between representation and participation, where parties are free and associative organized structures.
Keywords: Primary elections; Party model; Political Participation; Party organization
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Antonio Floridia, Primarie e partiti: che tipo di primarie e per quale modello di partito? in "PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO" 1/2011, pp 35-54, DOI: 10.3280/PACO2011-001002