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Intra-party democracy: a functionalist approach

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This paper articulates a functionalist account of intra-party democracy (IPD). Like realist critics, we insist that IPD practices be evaluated on the basis of whether they facilitate resistance to domination and capture at the level of the polity as a whole, and therefore accept certain realist worries about IPD. Yet realists neglect the possibility that wealthy interests could control the political agenda by capturing all viable parties simultaneously—and that mass-facing IPD could counter t...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1111/jopp.12270

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Sub department:
Politics & Int Relations
Oxford college:
Nuffield College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-6126-3232
Publisher:
Wiley
Journal:
Journal of Political Philosophy More from this journal
Volume:
30
Issue:
3
Pages:
347-369
Publication date:
2021-10-27
Acceptance date:
2021-09-07
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EISSN:
1467-9760
ISSN:
0963-8016
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1198876
Local pid:
pubs:1198876
Deposit date:
2021-10-05

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