The Politics Insurgents Make: Reconstructive Reformers in U.S. and U.K. Postwar Party Development

Hilton, Adam

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“…In the context of electoral politics, insurgency tends to have a know-itwhen-I-see-it quality-that is, the term is frequently employed but rarely defined. Even prominent academic studies and works of political journalism on the subject nearly all fail to provide an explicit definition of the concept (e.g., Bloch Rubin 2013;Hilton 2019;Miroff 2007aMiroff , 2007bPeters 2022;Tichenor and Fuerstman 2008). In an important exception, Blum (2020, 6) defines the Tea Party as an "insurgent faction," distinguishing it from other types of party faction principally by its combativeness and "willingness to destabilize" its host party as a means of gaining control of it.…”

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Between Movements and Parties: Placing Insurgents in American Party Politics

Hilton

2022

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Party insurgents loom large on the American political landscape. But political scientists have yet to development a theory capable of systematically understanding their role in processes of party transformation and political change. This paper addresses this gap by answering three research questions: What defines insurgency? What mechanisms connect insurgents to party change? And what effects do insurgents have on the health of American democracy?

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“…Postwar Party Development," traces the immediate influences and long-term legacies of reform movements within the Democratic and Labor Parties. 5 Finally, in "A Case of Communicative Learning? : Rereading Habermas's Philosophical Project through an Arendtian Lens," Peter J. Verovšek looks at the adaptability of conceptual thought through its openness to external influence, by focusing on the various acknowledged and unacknowledged contributions of Hannah Arendt's ideas to the development of Habermas's political theory.…”

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Rigidity and Adaptation

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Karapin

2019

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igidity and adaptation, stiffness and flexibility: these are ways we characterize structures in our built environment as well as psychological dispositions. Political institutions and agents also vary along a continuum between the rigid and the adaptable-some may be stiff to the point of brittleness, while others are flexible to the point of fluidity. Somewhere between these poles may lie the right balance of structure and pliability. Machiavelli's prince must have the flexibility to be both a lion and a fox, strong and sly. Modern political institutions that look like rigid hierarchies may contain elements of slack, such as the often extensive discretion possessed by front-line workers in bureaucracies. Other institutions adapt because they are porous, open to reshaping by external ideologies and insurgent actors.When states fail to adapt to new grievances and movements, events such as the Arab Spring may occur, as analyzed by Tansa George Massoud, John Doces, and Christopher Magee in this issue's first article, "The Arab Spring: An Empirical Investigation." 1 Their analysis of protests in nineteen Arab League states in the 1990-2011 period concludes that protests were more intense in partial democracies with factional politics, corruption, repression, inflation, and a high use of the Internet and cell phones, and not due to a demographic youth bulge. In "State Building through Mediation: The U.S. Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research Group in World War II," Gerald Berk focuses on what would appear to be a very rigidly hierarchal institution-the U.S. military in wartime-and reveals the surprising degree of creative adaptation on the ground (or rather, at sea), as soldiers and scientists experimented with ways to confront German U-Boat attacks. 2 Next, Inder S. Marwah examines the flexible career of developmentalism. In "Provincial-

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Tea Party of the Left? Progressive Insurgent Influence in the Democratic Party, 2018-2022

Malpas

2024

SSRN Journal

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The Politics Insurgents Make: Reconstructive Reformers in U.S. and U.K. Postwar Party Development

Cited by 3 publications

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Between Movements and Parties: Placing Insurgents in American Party Politics

Between Movements and Parties: Placing Insurgents in American Party Politics

Rigidity and Adaptation

Tea Party of the Left? Progressive Insurgent Influence in the Democratic Party, 2018-2022

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