Partisan Ideology Research Articles

Differences in Partisan Style and Ideology Between Female and Male State Party Committee Members

ABSTRACT This study examines differences in partisan style and ideology between male and female state political party committee members. Based on a 1994 survey, the study finds no gender differences in partisan style among Republicans and only minor differences among Democrats. There is only a minor ideological gender gap in both parties. The survey showed that both men and women have similar affiliative ties to the political party (e.g., years of service, numbers and types of positions held). It is argued that activists with closer affiliative ties to the party may encounter similar socializing experiences that mitigate possible gender differences.

Differences in partisan style and ideology between female and male state party committee members

Differences in partisan style and ideology between female and male state party committee members

The Country in Her Throat, Beyond The Ruins

In the wake of a powerfully divisive political exercise such as the Quebec referendum, tribal partisan rhetoric of power-hungry political demagogues is creating a dominant perception of three Canadian solitudes. As a Montrealer of Greek cultural heritage, with a keen interest in the potency of Canadian and Quebec theatre to function as a catalyst for philosophical and ethical reflection, and as an educator concerned with exposing stringent ethnocentric intolerance within a supposedly multicultural society, I feel it significant to articulate the political context within which I have chosen to write this review. A prevailing sense of cultural malaise permeates the angst-ridden soul of this nation’s ethnic and racial minorities, discerned in a cautious silence infiltrating the streets of post-referendum Montreal, and superbly captured in the two plays written by Marco Micone and Simon Fortin. It is only timely to review these two play texts that explore those seminal issues of cultural and political assimilation facing ethnic and racial minorities within Canada and Quebec. The voices of the culturally disenfranchised, the victims of partisan ideologies and of cultural assimilation, speak through these plays and can serve to remind us of the human casualties often overlooked when ideological passions obfuscate the revealing powers of human empathy, sensitivity, and logic.

FOMC VOTING BEHAVIOR AND ELECTORAL CYCLES: PARTISAN IDEOLOGY AND PARTISAN LOYALTY

The influence of partisan and electoral considerations on the monetary policy voting behavior of Federal Reserve Governors is investigated in the context of a model permitting the estimation of reaction functions on the basis of FOMC voting records. The results suggest that once we have controlled for the state of the economy and for the prevailing stance of monetary policy, both partisan ideologies and partisan loyalties appear to play an important role in the Governors’voting calculus.

Rethinking the Political: Some Heideggerian Contributions

Recent literature on Heidegger concentrates heavily on his (temporary) involvement in or collusion with Nazi ideology and policies. Without belittling the gravity of the issue, this article shifts the focus somewhat by invoking a distinction which recently has emerged (or reemerged) in political thought: namely, the distinction between “politics” and “the political” or between politics viewed as partisan ideology or policy making, on the one hand, and politics seen as regime or paradigmatic framework, on the other. The main thesis of the article is that Heidegger's promising contributions to political theory are located on the level of ontology or paradigmatic framework rather than that of ideological partisanship. While not neglecting the dismal intrusions of the latter plane, the article probes Heideggerian cues for a “rethinking of the political” by placing the accent on four topical areas: first, the status of the subject or individual as political agent; second, the character of the political community, that is, of the polity or (in modern terms) the “state”; thirdly, the issue of cultural and political development or modernization; and finally, the problem of an emerging cosmopolis or world order beyond the confines of Western culture. In discussing these topics, an effort is made to disentangle Heidegger from possible misinterpretations and to indicate how, in each area, his thought pointed in the direction of an “overcoming” of Western political metaphysics.

Ideologies and the Structure of Eastern European Society

Social structure, especially its intercultural, interpersonal, and power reationships, is closely related to the formation of ideologies. Ideologies in turn affect the stability of the structure from which they spring. In terms of these propositions the prediction of future alternatives of structural and ideological changes is possible. In Eastern Europe the fundamental clash of cultures and aspirations which in the past caused the formation of imperial, peasant, and Partisan ideologies is still a work and is responsible for the instability of the Partisan states. Extreme governmentalization of these states is expected to provoke new ideologies, international complications, and structural changes.