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The paradox here is that parties have become more tribal having lost their ideological distinctiveness.
Such developments removed parties from the ambit of voters.
This increases the public's suspicion of political parties, not least because--like all professional sports--playing the game is expensive.
But if parties are not state-supported, they must find funds through channels that are often dubious, when not illegal.
Many of the great political scandals of recent decades began with the financing of parties and candidates.
Other indices--such as sharply declining membership rolls--confirm that parties have become unpopular.
Yet parties remain indispensable to elective democracy.
Because parties operate in parliaments, the disconnection affects one of the crucial democratic institutions.
After all, unpopular parties and falling electoral turnout may merely be passing phenomena.
New parties may arise and breathe more life into elections and representative government.
And, indeed, the legacy of Third Reich hyper-chauvinism and “actually existing socialism” in the eastern part of the country has inculcated in most Germans a cautious centrism, rendering extremist parties unsupportable for the majority of voters.
In fact, the relatively weak support for populist parties in German elections obscures an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in German society that bears striking similarities to the anger that has fueled the rise of anti-establishment parties in Europe and beyond.
Established political parties fare even worse: 80% of Germans trust political parties “little or not at all,” and nearly 60% no longer believe that they can devise solutions to pressing problems.
So, rather than taking comfort in populist parties’ relatively weak performance in this month’s election, Germany’s political class should take action.
For starters, political parties should recognize Germany’s “hidden” populism for what it is: a serious structural challenge.
As a result, political parties and social organizations alike attacked reform efforts.
A country-wide strike called by opposition parties on September 20 brought many cities and towns to a halt.
He could not counter the view among some of the region’s politicians that success for Syriza would embolden and strengthen other non-traditional parties around Europe.
Mainstream parties, desperate to remain relevant, are caught in a vice, forced to choose between pandering to extremism and the risk of being overwhelmed by populist, anti-establishment movements.
These include threats, intimidation, detention, sexual harassment, and violent attacks by governments, corporations, security forces, or other third parties with a stake in where aid funds end up.
As Global Witness makes clear, the presence of development aid in many of these projects allows for interested parties, such as governments and corporations, to demonize environmental defenders as “anti-development” and therefore unpatriotic.
In the absence of new initiatives by all parties, things are likely to get worse.
Human rights groups have long urged the necessity of extending the writ of Pakistan's Constitution to the tribal belt, where religion-based parties have wide support.
These religious parties, a coalition of which now heads the provincial government in the North West Frontier Province, were politically marginalized until given a central role by Pakistan's military dictator of the 1980's, General Zia ul Haq, who led Pakistan's covert intervention in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Despite fierce opposition from religious parties, there have been minor victories, like a couple of madrassahs agreeing to include secular subjects like math, English, and computer studies in their curricula.
There has also been administrative action against a few religious institutions for encroaching on public space - practically unheard of since official patronage of religious parties began in the 1970's, when their cadres were needed in the war against the Soviets.
The United States and the three other members of the Quartet – the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations – are planning to convene many of the parties to the Israeli-Arab conflict at a meeting near Washington in November.
Ripeness has several elements: there must be a formula for the parties involved to adopt, a diplomatic process to get them to that point, and protagonists who are able and willing to make a deal.
Here, and elsewhere, the US will need to take the lead; the parties cannot be expected to reach consensus by themselves.
The context for peace in the Middle East has deteriorated sharply in the seven years since the Clinton administration last convened the parties.
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