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Dec 8, 2010 · This volume deals with two dimensions of authoritarian legacies in South European democracies: political elites associated with authoritarian regimes, and human rights abuses associated with repressive institutions.
- António Costa Pinto
- 2010
- Origins of Political Parties
- Development in The United States
- Modern Political Parties
- Summary
In his writings, Thucydides from ancient Athens suggests that there may have been political factions or groups allied and associated in the way they operated within the Athenian political system. They were never called political parties, where politics was often seen more about the individual than larger platforms held in common as a party system w...
In the United States, similar disputes over the nature and power of leadership led to the eventual emergence of parties. The debate as to how much power the federal government should have relative to state rights became the core issue that led to the emergence of the two-party system in the United States. The Federalists Party, led by Alexander Ham...
As revolutionary ideas spread in the late 18th and 19th centuries in Europe, the emerging republics and nation-state began to develop concepts of political parties. In Germany, in the mid 19th century, parties emerged around those that supported different classes and the role of the central government that emerged later in the 19th century. In Fran...
Ideas behind political parties do have ancient origins, but ancient political parties, such as from Rome, were very different from modern parties. Class was initially the main divide in political support. In later parties in the 17th century, generally the wealthy supported different parties but during the 18th-century parties became broader in sup...
Sep 26, 2007 · This is a study of how factionalism affected the stabilization of new small southern European democracies during the period of transition from authoritarian dictatorship to democracy. The cases of Portugal and Greece help us to identify these new democracies as patrimonialist in nature.
- José M. Magone
- 1995
These scholarly attempts to understand the specificities of Southern Europe date back to the concerns of Western European Cold War strategists in the 1970s, many of whom were worried about the status quo of the region in the aftermath of the fall of the dictatorships.
- Alan Granadino, Eirini Karamouzi, Rinna Kullaa
- 2021
The political groups of the European Parliament have been around in one form or another since September 1952 and the first meeting of the Parliament's predecessor, the Common Assembly. The groups are coalitions of MEPs and the European parties and national parties that those MEPs belong to.
5 This is particularly prominent in the 'failed revolution' approach adopted in much work on southern Europe during the 1940s, whereby a presumed victory of the left was prevented in, for example, Greece and Italy by external intervention and the internal mobilisation of the post-fascist forces of counter revolution.
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To say that democratic progress in Southern Europe has followed a fluctuating path is an understatement. Since the mid-20th Century, the region has witnessed a variety of regimes including brutal dictatorships, military rule and flourishing pluralist multi-party democracies.
