Party democracy’s decline also destroyed the intermediary institutions linking citizens to the state
Evidence
The process Heartfield charts not only concerns the loss of a group of core voters. The erosion of party democracy is also about the withering away and crushing of a certain civil society: institutions that stand between the citizen and the state and shape the relationship of the citizen to that state: trade unions, farmers’ associations, churches, neighborhood clubs. … In the 1970s, the British House of Commons counted 150 teachers, twenty engineers, and thirty miners among its members, most of whom had come from trade unions or workers’ clubs. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 150
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels Putnam’s ‘Bowling Alone’ thesis about declining civic associations, explicitly referenced in the following paragraph. — connects to: The 2008 crash accelerated a decades-long hollowing out of party democracy — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 98; Party democracy’s erosion destroyed the mediating civil society that stood between citizen and state. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 150; The neoliberal state hollowed out parties to escape mass democracy’s brake on capital (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Party democracy’s erosion destroyed the mediating civil society that stood between citizen and state.
#corroborates(0.95) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 150 - The neoliberal state hollowed out parties to escape mass democracy’s brake on capital
#expands(0.80) - Twentieth-century states have been reduced via party or liberal governmentality
#expands(0.75) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1018 - The 2008 crisis accelerated a decades-long party democracy decline
#qualifies(0.72) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 85