How political organisations can become more attractive to young adults by Philipp Köbe

“… This article deals with the relationship between the attractiveness of political parties and the younger generation. A recent survey of the attitudes of 15 to 25 year-olds revealed that young people are both interested in political issues and willing to assume responsibility through participation. …”
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Youth’s underrepresentation in the European Parliament: Insights from interviews with young Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by Daniel Stockemer, Aksel Sundström

“… Why do political parties elect so few young deputies? Given that the quantitative literature has at best only partially answered this question, we decided to conduct a qualitative investigation. …”
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Age Groups and Generations: Lines of Conflict and Potentials for Integration by Martin Kohli

“…The reason why age conflicts are not more pronounced is the mediating function of political parties, unions and families. Furthermore, although it is often claimed that the welfare state is increasingly dominated by the elderly, this is far from being the case. …”
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La publicisation du débat sur l’avortement au Maroc. L’État marocain en action by Marc-Éric Gruénais

“…Representatives of political parties, religious, representatives of civil society, public administration then expressed contrasting or even ambiguous positions with regard to the attitude of the gynecologist president of the association who led the debate and the issue of abortion. …”
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Konflikt eller konsensus? by Louise Lexbro

“…Where conflicts did occur, both in the theoretical realm and in decision-making, there were not between political parties but rather between expert jurists. The results of the study show that criminal policy during this 20 year period was not a major political issue despite sharp, concurrent increases in Swedish crime rates.…”
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Mapping the global election landscape on social media in 2024. by Giulio Pecile, Niccolò Di Marco, Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi

“…This study examines the media landscape on Facebook by analyzing posts from political parties and major news outlets in Europe, Mexico, and India. …”
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The ANC and its use of history to build its brand by Ronald Irwin

“… The African National Congress, South Africa’s ruling party since its liberation from apartheid in 1994, has one of the most compelling stories in modern political history. Few political parties in the world have such a momentous, historically moving narrative; and few have used it to such effect. …”
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Ukraine: Party politics, the Left and President Zelensky: An interview with Professor Olexiy Haran by Marina Slhessarenko Barreto

“…The discussion portrays both social and institutional features of politics, encompassing social movements and political parties; it goes from fight against corruption to lustration laws; from civil criticism to war decisions. …”
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Women Leaders and their Leadership Styles by Sumeshni Govender, Professor Sithabile Ntombela, Siphelele S. Makhubu

“…Although South Africa has made significant strides in addressing gender inequality, especially in government departments and political parties, women remain under-represented in other sectors. …”
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Las canciones del 15-M y su memoria. El sonido de un compromiso político by José Rafael Ramos Barranco

“…It became an active starting point for a different way of understanding democracy that derived from the creation of citizen platforms to the emergence of political parties. In this paper we intend to analyze the role of songs in that movement and, above all, how the ideas of 15-M appear in contemporary Spanish song and through which artists. …”
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« Qu’avez-vous fait de vos vingt ans ? » Militantismes marocains du 23-mars (1965) au 20 février (2011) by Frédéric Vairel

“…In other words, regardless of the radical posture claimed by members of the movement - or coined by their critics in an attempt to delegitimize them - the issue of mobilization and public controversy was nothing more than the reform of the monarchy. Political parties and unions offered only limited support to mobilization, when they did not oppose it : the 2011 demonstrations were an accurate indicator of the straitjacket process in the field of established politics.…”
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Mettre en lumière des réseaux invisibles pour les historiens : la bipolarisation d’un réseau aristocratique à la cour de Vienne, 1685-1740 by Éric Hassler

“…The Viennese aristocratic networks appear as such a tangle of individuals and families, that they have never been precisely studied per se, except in relation with political parties. However, the most recent historiography proved that this way of studying the Aristocratic networks was not efficient due to the permanent reconfigurations of political groups depending on circumstances and private interests only. …”
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A quoi servent les partis tunisiens ? by Célina Braun

“…The presence of political parties in Parliament has never been so useful to the government and useless to the opposition. …”
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Os múltiplos processos de construção da autonomia do movimento zapatista by Juan Diez

“…This article analyzes the autonomous indigenous processes that are taking place in the communities in Chiapas since the Zapatista uprising, as well as a broader discussion on autonomy from the state and political parties that was encouraged by the Zapatistas from the very beginning. …”
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La cuestión religiosa como factor de conflictividad política durante la Segunda República by Miguel Ángel Giménez Martínez

“…The dynamic of the parliamentary regime, characterized by the predominance of the Cortes within the interorganic relations, strengthened the controversial dimension of the religious question: political parties developed a confrontation strategy in Parliament that negatively affected the efficacy of the legislation approved. …”
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La violence politique dans le périodique satirique Simplicisssimus de l’avant à l’après Première Guerre mondiale by Pascale Cohen-Avenel

“…This violence is especially present in the images caricaturing the occupation of the Rhineland, and subsequently of the Ruhr, by French-African troops, and the referendum on self-determination in Silesia, as well as the Revolution of 1918, the clashes between the different political parties and the aborted putsches of 1920 and 1923, and the wars being waged during this period elsewhere in the world, notably in China and Japan. …”
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Del barrio a la fábrica : El proceso de repolitización fabril en la Argentina reciente by Paula Varela

“…These are: the tension between strengthening unions « above » (as a state policy of kirchnerism) and strengthening « from below » (at the workplace); the existence of a new generation of workers, the «  2001 generation »; the combination of re-politicization process and the presence of the radical left in Argentina, particularly political parties in the Trotskyist tradition.…”
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COVID-19 and Scottish Independence: The Instrumentalisation of the Pandemic in the Constitutional Debate by Nelly Gérard

“…Feeding into this debate about Scotland’s status within the UK, the Covid-19 crisis and its management became yet another argument for political parties to legitimize their constitutional policies. …”
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Alberto Fujimori : le populisme de l’efficacité by Diana Burgos-Vigna

“…This non-professional politician was able to come to power and remain in office in particular thanks to the lack of confidence in political parties and trade unions. He was immediately credited with honesty and competence. …”
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Measuring the power of parties within US Government from 1993 to 2018: New key variables by Matteo Laruffa

“…The article describes a new theoretical framework and empirical method to understand the power of parties within the U.S. Government. Political parties are not simply critical means by which citizens participate in their government, but also foundational to a pluralist political society and play an active role in defending the constitutional principles of liberal institutions and democracy. …”
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