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This collection constitutes the first 'state of the art' of the existing normative research on political parties and partisanship. Each contribution represents a significant addition to the existing literature, while reflecting the author's unique approach to this novel strand of research in political theory.
This book was published as a special issue of
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Parties, partisanship and political theory Veit Bader and Matteo Bonotti 2. Partisanship and independence: the peculiar moralism of American politics Nancy L. Rosenblum 3. Religious parties and the problem of democratic political legitimacy Bryan T. McGraw 4. Partisanship and public reason Matteo Bonotti 5. Private association and public brand: the dualistic conception of political parties in the common law world Graeme Orr 6. Crisis of political parties and representative democracies: rethinking parties in associational, experimentalist governance Veit Bader 7. Transnational partisanship: idea and practice Jonathan White
About the author
Matteo Bonotti is a Lecturer in Political Theory (fixed term) at Queen's University Belfast, UK. His research interests lie in contemporary political theory, with a special focus on the normative dimensions of partisanship, John Rawls's political liberalism, religion and political theory. He is also interested in the normative dimensions of food policy and language policy. His publications include articles in
Res Publica,
Ethical Perspectives and
Politics.
Veit Bader is Emeritus Professor of Sociology (Department of Political and Socio-cultural Sciences) and of Social and Political Philosophy (Department of Philosophy) at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and a member of IMES (Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies). He has written on a wide range of issues in critical social theory; social inequalities and collective action; democracy and the rule of law (particularly in the EU); racism, ethnicity and citizenship; ethics of migration and incorporation of minorities; global justice; governance of religious diversity. His most recent book is:
Secularism or Democracy? Associational Governance of Religious Diversity (2007).
