Agents of Representation: The Organic Connection between Society and Leftist Parties in Bolivia and Uruguay

IF 4.1 2区 社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-09-28 DOI:10.1177/00323292211042442
Santiago Anria, Verónica Pérez Bentancur, Rafael Piñeiro Rodríguez, F. Rosenblatt
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Parties are central agents of democratic representation. The literature assumes that this function is an automatic consequence of social structure and/or a product of incentives derived from electoral competition. However, representation is contingent upon the organizational structure of parties. The connection between a party and an organized constituency is not limited to electoral strategy; it includes an organic connection through permanent formal or informal linkages that bind party programmatic positions to social groups’ preferences, regardless of the electoral returns. This article analyzes how the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement toward Socialism, MAS) in Bolivia and the Frente Amplio (Broad Front, FA) in Uruguay developed two different forms of relationship with social organizations that result from the interplay of historical factors traceable to the parties’ formative phases and party organizational attributes. Party organizational features that grant voice to grassroots activists serve as crucial mechanisms for bottom-up incorporation of societal interests and demands.
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代表代理人:玻利维亚和乌拉圭社会与左翼政党的有机联系
政党是民主代表制的核心力量。文献认为,这一功能是社会结构的自动结果和/或选举竞争激励的产物。然而,代表权取决于各方的组织结构。政党与有组织选区之间的联系不仅限于选举策略;它包括通过永久的正式或非正式联系的有机联系,将政党的纲领立场与社会群体的偏好联系起来,无论选举结果如何。本文分析了玻利维亚的社会主义运动和乌拉圭的安波利阵线是如何与社会组织发展出两种不同形式的关系的,这两种关系是可追溯到政党形成阶段和政党组织属性的历史因素相互作用的结果。赋予基层积极分子发言权的党的组织特征是自下而上纳入社会利益和需求的关键机制。
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