Political parties function as organs of order and surveillance

Evidence

In this sense, entire “political” parties and other organisations—economic or otherwise—must be considered as organs of political order, of an investigational and preventive character. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 856

Categorization

• XREF: Connects forward to how civil-society institutions police Muslim communities’ behavior and expression; also to the reader’s CVE-funding note about converting groups into policing subcontractors. — connects to: Political parties function as laboratories unifying theory and practice into new intelligentsias. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1203; Political actors entrench power through functional mechanisms as readily as formal legal rules — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 42; Trust operates where parties are both free and constrained — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2729 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Political parties function as laboratories unifying theory and practice into new intelligentsias. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1203; Political actors entrench power through functional mechanisms as readily as formal legal rules — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 42; Trust operates where parties are both free and constrained — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2729 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Political parties function as laboratories unifying theory and practice into new intelligentsias. #complicates (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1203
• Framing parties as conspiracies constitutes an attack on democracy itself #complicates (0.71) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 191