Suchergebnisse

La articulación entre los gobiernos y los partidos que los soportan es uno de los mecanismos centrales para la operación de las políticas democráticas. Sin embargo, este asunto no ha sido estudiado sistemáticamente y existe la necesidad de una amplia cantidad de análisis empíricos v de mayores clasificaciones conceptuales. En este ensayo se abordan los siguientes aspectos: el concepto de gobierno de partidos; los partidos como cuerpos que toman decisiones; el concepto de partido sostenedor; las actividades de los partidos y las del gobierno: el espacio de las relaciones partido-gobierno; las dimensiones de las relaciones gobierno-partido, y los patrones de relación partido-gobierno.

Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in 2020. ; The question of the relationship between parties and the governments which they support has not so far been given the attention it deserves. This is surprising from both a normative and an empirical standpoint. The reasons why this question has not been studied so far have probably to do with the notion, held unconsciously but also strongly, that the problem is a simple one. As with all matters which are understudied, there is some tendency to simplify and in this case to believe that parliamentary government, in Western Europe at least, is party government. Yet, as one looks more closely at the problem, the simplicity of the answer begins to vanish. What we therefore need to do, first, is to examine what the expression 'party government' really means. This examination will begin to raise in our minds questions about the validity of the 'idealised concept' of party government. This will lead us to adopt a more sedate view of what party government consists of as well as to notice that there are substantial variations in the content of party government in different countries.