TY  - BOOK
AU  - de Leon,Cedric
AU  - Desai,Manali
AU  - Tuğal,Cihan
AU  - Tuğal,Cihan
TI  - Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society
SN  - 9780804794985
AV  - JF2051B82 
U1  - 324.2 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Redwood City
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Comparative government
KW  - Political parties -- Social aspects
KW  - Social conflict -- Political aspects
KW  - Social structure -- Political aspects
KW  - Political sociology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Tables, Maps, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Political Articulation: The Structured Creativity of Parties - Cedric de Leon, Manali Desai, and Cihan Tugal -- 1. The Political Origins of Working Class Formation in the United States: Chicago, 1844-1886 - Cedric de Leon, Department of Sociology, Providence College -- 2. Continuity or Change? Rethinking Left Party Formation in Canada - Barry Eidlin, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations -- 3. Religious Politics, Hegemony, and the Market Economy: Parties in the Making of Turkey's Liberal-Conservative Bloc and Egypt's Diffuse Islamization - Cihan Tugal, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley -- 4. Democratic Disarticulation and Its Dangers: Cleavage Formation and Promiscuous Power-Sharing in Indonesian Party Politics - Dan Slater, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago -- 5. Weak Party Articulation and Development in India, 1991-2014 - Manali Desai, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge -- 6. Coda: Hegemony and Democracy in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks - Dylan Riley, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - Going against the prevailing notion that political parties mirror divisions in society, Building Blocs argues that some parties actively structure those divisions. Using international case studies and Gramscian social theory, this volume demonstrates that political articulation is not the work of ambitious politicians or of the state, but primarily of parties. With one foot in society they also control the system of nominations, appointments, and elections--and as a consequence, the resources of state power
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