Party Recruitment Research Articles

Party Recruitment and the Nationalities in the USSR: A Study in Centre-Republican Relationships

The Soviet political system is usually thought of as an extremely centralized, uniform system. The centre decides, the Republican or local authorities obey. There is little scope for local initiative or autonomy. Yet, at the same time, another image of political life edges its way forward. Georgia was run for many years by its local boss, Mzhavanadze, along lines that clearly were not what the centre wanted; frequent reports appear of muddle, confusion, the non-implementation of legislation or the activities of local ‘family circles’. Somehow we have to make sense of these two aspects of Soviet politics. Is it that the centre chooses to exert its power in some policy areas and not in others, or is it that some are less amenable to control? Are some geographical or cultural regions treated differently from others? How much local autonomy is there? The question of the degree of decentralization in the Soviet system has been raised most recently and explored most interestingly by Hough. This is a contribution to the same theme. It does not provide any grand answers but it does focus attention on a topic that is of key importance in itself and about which we know little: the process of party recruitment. The paper seeks to explore the relationship between central party authorities and the Republican party organizations by looking at the recruitment of the different nationalities.

Political Recruitment and Socialization in Syria: The case of the Revolutionary Youth Federation

Over the last fifteen years the Syrian Ba'th Party has succeeded-in a country previously known for weak governments and military coups-not only in entrenching a strong relatively stable system of single party rule, but also in launching its own variety of socialist and modernizing revolution. The explanation of this transformation in the nature of Syrian political life is one of the interesting problems of contemporary Syrian and Middle Eastern politics. What accounts for it? This essay will explore one approach to a partial explanation: a study of party recruitment and socialization practices.

Correction: The Impact of Party Recruitment Activity upon Legislative Role Orientations: A Path Analysis

Correction: The Impact of Party Recruitment Activity upon Legislative Role Orientations: A Path Analysis

The Impact of Party Recruitment Activity upon Legislative Role Orientations: A Path Analysis

This study examines the linkage between party organization and party government by measuring the impact of party recruitment upon role orientations of legislators. Path analysis is utilized to test the central hypothesis, which is: The greater the recruitment activity of a party, the more competitive the legislative primary election as perceived by the legislator, and the stronger the perceived party organizational strength, the more likely the legislator will adopt a party (delegate, district, and gubernatorial) role orientation. The three independent variables of the model explain 44 percent of the variance in party role orientations, 32 percent in representational role orientations, 35 percent in constituency role orientations,and 38 percent in gubernatorial role orientations; and a strong relationship between the recruitment activity and role orientations is substantiated. The linkages between voters, party organizations, and legislators are central to representative popular government and American democracy. While the relationship between party organization and party government has never been fully studied, the involvement of the party as a recruitment agent in the selection of the political leaders is central to this linkage. Two major questions concerning the relationship between party organization and party in government will be analyzed. First, what is the direct impact of party recruitment activity upon the role orientations of legislators? Second, what is the indirect influence of party recruitment activity upon legislative role orientations through the legislator's perception of party organizational and electoral strength? Most political scientists agree that the control of candidate recruitment, as well as the responsiveness of public officeholders to a party program, are two major prerequisites to party government. Responsible party government has never been completely achieved in the American party system at any level of goverment. Federalism and the separation of powers are two strong forces which work against responsible parties at the national level in the United States, although recent reforms in Congress, in the Democratic

Toward a Homosocial Theory of Sex Roles: An Explanation of the Sex Segregation of Social Institutions

Occupational segregation of women is a major reflection of the generalized segregation that characterizes all aspects of Western social life. It is the visible sign of a massive institutional substructure on which we are most likely to founder unless we are able to find a way around it. Two of the papers in this section deal with macrosociological segregation patterns that link different institutional sectors of society: Safilios-Rothschild addresses the question of sex segregation in the articulation between the institutions of the family and the occupational world; Gates explicates the ways in which the legal institutions buttress the segregation of the domestic and occupational domains. The Laws paper, operating on a different level of analysis, looks at different theoretical approaches to women's segregated involvement in the labor force.

The social bases of party recruitment: A study of party organisational activists in an Indian city

The social bases of party recruitment: A study of party organisational activists in an Indian city

Associational 'Micro-Arenas' in Indian Urban Politics

n his study of Congress party recruitment for 1967 general election in Bihar and Maharashtra, W. H. Morris-Jones reported the outstanding importance of two areas of public life-education and cooperatives among applicants for Congress nominations.' Other observers have commented similarly on way in which patronage spinoff of modernization has induced close political collaboration between government and a myriad of quasi-governmental associational enterprises spawned by cooperative movement and other developmental programs.2 It has long been recognized, for example, that control of district central cooperative banks, apex credit-allocating agencies for cooperative structure in each of India's districts, paid handsome political as well as economic dividends.

POLA REKRUTMEN POLITIK BERDASARKAN IDEOLOGI PARTAI POLITIK DALAM SISTEM KETATANEGARAAN INDONESIA

Political recruitment is a process of selecting and selecting a person or several members of the community to occupy and exercise certain political roles as cadres of political parties, legislators, as president and vice president and as regional head. In the Indonesian state system, this political recruitment is left to political parties. The rise of political parties as a result of freedom of association and assembly on the one hand is a reflection of democracy but on the other hand the large number of political parties will give rise to increasingly tight competition between political parties. The increasing competition makes political actors easily trapped in political pragmatism. Political pragmatism as a short-term orientation of political actors to win political competition is power. Power as the ultimate goal of the political competition. Political pragmatism has had a significant impact on the formation of pragmatic recruitment patterns. The pattern of pragmatic recruitment has spawned many problems, especially issues related to the quality of recruitment results. One of them is that many of the political elites are facing legal problems such as corruption and so on. Under these conditions emerged initiatives to present a systematic and structured pattern of political recruitment. One of the indications is that political recruitment is based on the ideology of political parties. The ideology of a political party is broadly divided into recruitment based on Islamic ideology (religion) and other ideologies such as nationalism. the closer the party ideology to the party recruitment pattern will result in quality recruitment and visionary cadres. on the contrary, the further distance the party ideology with the party recruitment pattern will result in a pragmatic recruitment. The results of recruitment have a close relationship with the quality of products produced, especially product legislation.
 
 Kata Kunci : pola rekrutmen, partai politik, sistem ketatanegaraan