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POLITICAL CONCEPT (2) answer(s).
 
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Party system institutionalization without parties: evidence from Korea / Hellmann, Olli   Journal Article
Hellmann, Olli Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract Formally institutionalized party organization is usually considered a prerequisite for the development of programmatic linkages between parties and voters. However, in this article I show that political parties in South Korea have succeeded in stabilizing interparty competition through programmatic linkages without making any significant efforts to build a formal organizational base. In fact, it could be argued that South Korea is a "partyless" democracy, as political parties get easily captured by the interests of ambitious politicians, thus failing to establish themselves as independent actors. I therefore make a more general argument about the concept of party system institutionalization: we need to rethink the current practice of aggregating the different attributes of party system institutionalization into a single scale, as these attributes do not seem to be connected in a linear fashion.
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Putting security governance to the test: conceptual, empirical, and normative challenges / Ehrhart, Hans-Georg; Hegemann, Hendrik; Kahl, Martin   Journal Article
Ehrhart, Hans-Georg Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract Security governance has featured prominently in recent debates about fragmentation, informalization, and privatization in the increasingly diverse field of security policy. It has inspired much valuable research. Yet, there are not just very different conceptual understandings of security governance; there is also a lack of clarity regarding its empirical manifestations and normative connotations. After a decade of research, the special issue therefore puts security governance to the test and scrutinizes its analytical and political pitfalls and potentials. This editorial briefly reviews the rise of security governance, identifies central conceptual, empirical, and normative challenges that need to be addressed, and introduces the individual contributions to this special issue.
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