Political parties have only recently become a subject of investigation in normative political theory. Parties have traditionally been studied by political scien

Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science, their governing and electoral functions among

Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. Their governing and electoral functions are a

Since its publication in 1993, John Rawls's Political Liberalism has been central to debates concerning political legitimacy, democratic theory, toleration, and

For a century at least, parties have been central to the study of politics. Yet their typical conceptual reduction to a network of power-seeking elites has left