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De macht van partijen in België sinds 1981 - particratie revisited

2021-03-23T11:57:10+00:00

Ze halen hun slag wel thuis: over particratie en het aanpassingsvermogen van Belgische partijen

2021-03-16T21:05:22+00:00

Particracy has been widely used to describe Belgian politics after World War II. Yet, Belgian politics has changed. We examine five changes – the federalisation of the state architecture, diversification of the demos, erosion of political support, party’s dealignment and personalisation of politics – to evaluate how they have affected particracy in Belgium. The answer is twofold: particracy is still very strong, but it has changed. The three traditional party families that had institutionalised particracy in Belgium (Christian-democrats, socialists and liberals) had to face new challengers. They co-opted the most moderate ones (greens, regionalists), while excluding others (radical right/left). Intraparty democracy/participatory/transparency reforms, or changes to the electoral system, all of them opening the political system, were also implemented, but parties were able to overcome them. Yet, the ever-growing gap between traditional parties and citizens and the growth of new parties building upon voters’ dissatisfaction with traditional parties, may put particracy more radically into question.

Twee handen op één buik ? Hoe en waarom de mediatisering van de Vlaamse politiek en particratie hand in hand gaan

2021-06-28T05:53:24+00:00

There is a growing consensus that politics have become mediatised. News media have become more independent and are more guided by their own routines and standards and less by what political actors deem important. However, this paper argues that this has not led to a decrease of the power of political parties. In Belgium, particracy and mediatisation seem to go hand in hand. There are mainly two reasons for this. Firstly, media attention focuses heavily on politicians with power and in that sense, media logic and party logic overlap. Secondly, parties have adjusted well to the media and their logic, among others by integrating journalists in the party organisation. We expect that social media will gradually become more important for politicians, but that this evolution too will change little to the central position of political parties in our democracy.

La Belgique confédérale wil unitair beleid voeren zonder democratie

2021-03-14T10:56:15+00:00

Is de politieke wetenschap de voeling met de politieke praktijk kwijt ?

2021-03-14T11:00:27+00:00

Politicologie hoeft niet ten dienste te staan van de politici

2021-03-14T11:03:23+00:00

Relatie politicologie-politiek is veranderd, maar niet verslechterd

2021-03-14T11:06:01+00:00

De revolutie eet haar eigen kinderen op

2021-03-14T12:00:23+00:00

Waarom Dewachter gelijk heeft

2021-03-15T14:35:08+00:00

Politicologie en politici, twee aparte werelden

2021-03-14T11:20:42+00:00

Slechts nu en dan een bui

2021-03-14T11:22:59+00:00

Het potentieel van denktanks als strategische partner in beleidsvorming

2021-03-14T11:29:09+00:00

Parlementarisering als tweerichtingsverkeer : een verklaring voor voorafgaande parlementaire consultatie bij militaire operaties

2021-03-14T11:28:15+00:00

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2021-03-14T11:31:34+00:00