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Political Party Development in Argentina

The Emergence of Socialist Party Parliamentarianism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

E. Spencer Wellhofer*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80210

Extract

Many authors (for example, Ostrogorski, 1964; Michels, 1962: 175 ff.; Weber, 1946: 101 ff.; Duverger, 1967: 182-197; Schlesinger, 1965: 766-767, 1967: 268; Seligman, 1967: 315; Stinchombe, 1965: 153; McKenzie, 1963: 581-591; Epstein, 1967: 167-233, 289-314) have noted that contemporary political parties are predominantly electoral organizations engaged in public office-seeking and dominated by elected officials. While American parties have always been characterized by office-seeking, this phenomenon was not intially characteristic of socialist, labor, or communist parties which endeavored to create a working-class subculture and to whom public office-seeking was only one of several activities. In many such parties, however, office-seeking has come to dominate or even replace a previously wide range of activities.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1975

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