CLEAVAGES, ORGANIZED INTERESTS, AND PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATES, GERMANY AND JAPAN

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dc.contributor.advisorRowe, William T.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBauwens, Fabianen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKatz, Richard S.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberChung, Erinen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMarlin-Bennett, Reneeen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBurdick-Will, Juliaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-16T03:37:22Z
dc.date.available2015-09-16T03:37:22Z
dc.date.created2015-05en_US
dc.date.issued2015-02-23en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThis project focuses on the relationship between cleavages, political parties, and interest groups in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Despite very different political and institutional characteristics – two-party, multi-party, and dominant-party systems; the German neo-corporatist state, the Japanese “developmental state,” and the U.S. pluralist limited state – all of them suffer increasingly from problems of disaffection of the electorate with political parties and elections. I explore the question in how far political parties actually represent the demands of cleavage-based constituencies as embodied by extra-electoral organized interests, how this relationship changed over time, and in how far institutional differences in government-interest group embeddedness may account for this. In particular, I am analyzing and comparing time-series data for political parties, union federations and minority organizations, by employing content analysis software in order to process data reaching back as far as five decades. As a theoretical framework I reapply social cleavage theory in a way that both parties and extra-electoral forms of political participation are included. One of the elements that make this project unique, is this approach that permits a comparison of political parties and extra-electoral political organizations within the same theoretical and methodological framework. This framework enables me to explore the changing relationship between the programmatic language of party manifestos and organized interests’ programmatic texts. In addition to case specific insights my project will not only provide a contribution to theory on the relationship between political cleavages, parties, and organized interests, but it will also yield a basis for recommendations on how to make political parties more responsive to the demands of cleavage-based organized interests. This project may be particularly useful for fledgling democracies in the early stages of state building, and studies focused on the interaction between political parties and interest group organizations.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/37946
dc.languageen
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University
dc.subjectCleavagesen_US
dc.subjectPartiesen_US
dc.subjectOrganized Interestsen_US
dc.subjectUSAen_US
dc.subjectJapanen_US
dc.subjectGermanyen_US
dc.subjectAFL-CIOen_US
dc.subjectDGBen_US
dc.subjectRENGOen_US
dc.subjectLULACen_US
dc.subjectTGDen_US
dc.subjectBLLen_US
dc.titleCLEAVAGES, ORGANIZED INTERESTS, AND PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATES, GERMANY AND JAPANen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentPolitical Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.grantorJohns Hopkins Universityen_US
thesis.degree.grantorKrieger School of Arts and Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.namePh.D.en_US
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