Lonely at the top
Lonely at the top
- August 8, 2012
- Research by Russ Dalton, political science professor, is featured in The Economist August 4, 2012
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From The Economist:
Belonging to a political party has never been cheaper. It costs just €20 ($25) a
year to be a member of the Socialist Party in France. Britain’s Conservatives ask
you to stump up only £25 ($39). New political movements set you back even less (£12
for membership of the Pirate Party UK), or are more like social networks (merely signing
up online makes you a tea-party “member” in America)...But shifts in the media and
in technology matter, too. Forty years ago political parties could still count on
a mostly deferential media. Now the internet lets multitudes of politicos thrive.
Many voters see better ways of making their voices heard than parties, which Russell
Dalton, of the University of California at Irvine, terms “old technology”. Blogging
provides more interesting forums than ward meetings ever did.
For the full story, please visit http://www.economist.com/node/21559901.
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