Hmmmm, do these parties go the whole hog and have people register to vote as aligned to a particular party and hand their candidate selection machinery over to the local or national government?
Because that's what strikes me as non-American as the really really weird bit, political parties not being private membership organisations but stanage hybrid quasi-public bodies, over and above the simple fact of having massive campaigns to elect a new candidate for every election cycle, rather than only when they get fed up with them, which is I guess merely a superficial oddness.
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Date: 2007-09-29 11:30 pm (UTC)Because that's what strikes me as non-American as the really really weird bit, political parties not being private membership organisations but stanage hybrid quasi-public bodies, over and above the simple fact of having massive campaigns to elect a new candidate for every election cycle, rather than only when they get fed up with them, which is I guess merely a superficial oddness.