Political parties’ development trends in the information society context

Abstract

Political parties are being changed greatly in the context of the information society. The first reason of such changes is the emergence of new postmodern social and political cleavages and ideologies. The second reason is the conceiving of a new party organization – movement parties. There is a world process of parties Americanisation and at the same time party systems must engage new types of extreme right and extreme left non-systemic parties. Against the background of these processes the new type of political parties is now emerging.

Keywords

• political parties
• movement parties
• postmodern cleavages
• political ideologies
• parties americanisation
• party systems
• network society