Party rules, party resources and the politics of parliamentary democracies: How parties organize in the 21st century
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Party rules, party resources and the politics of parliamentary democracies : How parties organize in the 21st century. / Poguntke, Thomas; Scarrow, Susan; Webb, Paul; Allern, Elin H; Aylott, Nicholas; Biezen, Ingrid van; Calossi, Enrico; Costa Lobo, Marina ; Cross, William P; Deschouwer, Kris; Enyedi, Zsolt; Fabre, Elodie; Farrell, David M; Gauja, Anika; Pizzimenti, Eugenio ; Kopecky , Petr; Koole, Ruud; Kosiara-Pedersen, Karina; Müller, Wolfgang C; Rahat, Gideon; Szczerbiak, Aleks ; van Haute, Emilie; Verge, Tania.
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T1 - Party rules, party resources and the politics of parliamentary democracies
T2 - How parties organize in the 21st century
AU - Poguntke, Thomas
AU - Scarrow, Susan
AU - Webb, Paul
AU - Allern, Elin H
AU - Aylott, Nicholas
AU - Biezen, Ingrid van
AU - Calossi, Enrico
AU - Costa Lobo, Marina
AU - Cross, William P
AU - Deschouwer, Kris
AU - Enyedi, Zsolt
AU - Fabre, Elodie
AU - Farrell, David M
AU - Gauja, Anika
AU - Pizzimenti, Eugenio
AU - Kopecky , Petr
AU - Koole, Ruud
AU - Kosiara-Pedersen, Karina
AU - Müller, Wolfgang C
AU - Rahat, Gideon
AU - Szczerbiak, Aleks
AU - van Haute, Emilie
AU - Verge, Tania
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This article introduces the first findings of the Political Party Database Project, a major survey of party organizations in parliamentary and semi-presidential democracies. The project’s first round of data covers 122 parties in 19 countries. In this article, we describe the scope of the database, then investigate what it tells us about contemporary party organization in these countries, focusing on parties’ resources, structures and internal decision-making. We examine organizational patterns by country and party family, and where possible we make temporal comparisons with older data sets. Our analyses suggest a remarkable coexistence of uniformity and diversity. In terms of the major organizational resources on which parties can draw, such as members, staff and finance, the new evidence largely confirms the continuation of trends identified in previous research: that is, declining membership, but enhanced financial resources and more paid staff. We also find remarkable uniformity regarding the core architecture of party organizations. At the same time, however, we find substantial variation between countries and party families in terms of their internal processes, with particular regard to how internally democratic they are, and the forms that this democratization takes.
AB - This article introduces the first findings of the Political Party Database Project, a major survey of party organizations in parliamentary and semi-presidential democracies. The project’s first round of data covers 122 parties in 19 countries. In this article, we describe the scope of the database, then investigate what it tells us about contemporary party organization in these countries, focusing on parties’ resources, structures and internal decision-making. We examine organizational patterns by country and party family, and where possible we make temporal comparisons with older data sets. Our analyses suggest a remarkable coexistence of uniformity and diversity. In terms of the major organizational resources on which parties can draw, such as members, staff and finance, the new evidence largely confirms the continuation of trends identified in previous research: that is, declining membership, but enhanced financial resources and more paid staff. We also find remarkable uniformity regarding the core architecture of party organizations. At the same time, however, we find substantial variation between countries and party families in terms of their internal processes, with particular regard to how internally democratic they are, and the forms that this democratization takes.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - politiske partier
KW - partifinansiering
KW - partimedlemskab
KW - partiinternt demokrati
KW - intra-party democracy
KW - party finance
KW - party membership
KW - party organization
KW - party strength
U2 - 10.1177/1354068816662493
DO - 10.1177/1354068816662493
M3 - Journal article
SP - 661
EP - 678
JO - Party Politics
JF - Party Politics
SN - 1354-0688
M1 - 1
ER -
ID: 165796397