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  • The relationships between political parties and civil society are central to parties’ performance of key representative functions. However, some have argued that parties are failing in these representative roles, that they have withdrawn from close contact with civil society and struggle to channel the concerns of groups of citizens. This dissertation examines these relationships through a wide-ranging comparative study. It seeks to understand how connections with civil society matter for parties in contemporary Western Europe, and explain why different parties have more intense connections than others. It demonstrates that parties’ connections to civil society help stabilise their electoral support, and that parties with government experience and parties with a left-wing ideology have more intense connections than their competitors. It explores the role played by party agency in explaining why similar parties exhibit diverging patterns of connection to civil society, and maps the patterns that connections take within a political system. This dissertation suggests that while the connections between parties and civil society in Western Europe have evolved, many governing parties retain close connections with civil society and the intensity of connections is subject to many influences including party ideology, and the perceptions of party elites on how best to pursue their political projects. The connections between parties and civil society continue to play an important role in the representation of social groups. However, in increasingly diverse societies facing major problems, both parties and civil society organisations will face continuing challenges in responding to new political demands and retaining their legitimacy as agents of representation. (xsd:string)
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