Dommett, K. orcid.org/0000-0003-0624-6610 and Rye, D. (2018) Taking up the baton? New campaigning organisations and the enactment of representative functions. Politics, 38 (4). pp. 411-427. ISSN 0263-3957
Abstract
Political parties have historically provided a key means by which citizens gain representation in the state, with parties enabling participation, integration, aggregation, conflict management and linkage (Sartori, 2005). Over recent years parties’ representative credentials have declined and new organisations have emerged as vehicles of representation (Mair, 2009). What is, however, unclear is the extent to which these new organisations have taken on the representative functions parties are traditionally seen to have performed. In this article, we examine Citizens UK and 38 Degrees as indicative examples to argue that, whilst opportunities for participation and integration can be found, aspects of aggregation, conflict management and linkage are no longer being performed. Diagnosing this change, we argue that these shifts in representation are having significant but as yet unrecognised consequences for how citizens relate to and engage with contemporary politics.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Representation; Political Parties; Party Decline; Political Participation; Democracy; New Campaigning Organisations |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2017 14:05 |
Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2023 15:16 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0263395717725934 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:118931 |