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- Aylott, Nicholas, 1970-, et al.
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Managed Intra-Party Democracy : Precursory Delegation and Party Leader Selection
- 2017
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 23:1, s. 55-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The question of how party leaders are selected has recently, and belatedly, come under systematic comparative scrutiny. If it is the location of intra-party power that interests us, however, it might be that some of the more observable indicators in such processes, such as the identity of the selectorate, are not actually the most revealing ones. Using a delegation perspective, we thus present a framework for analysing prior steps in leader selection and relate it to various ideal-typical constellations of intra-party power. The framework encompasses, first, what we call precursory delegation, with focus especially on an agent that, formally or informally, manages the selection process before it reaches the selectorate. Second, the framework takes account of the degree to which the process is managed rather than left open to free competition between leader candidates. We illustrate the framework primarily with instances of leader selection in two Swedish parties.
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- Bakker, Ryan, et al.
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Measuring party positions in Europe: The Chapel Hill expert survey trend file, 1999–2010
- 2015
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 21:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reports on the 2010 Chapel Hill expert surveys (CHES) and introduces the CHES trend file, which contains measures of national party positioning on European integration, ideology and several European Union (EU) and non-EU policies for 1999-2010. We examine the reliability of expert judgments and cross-validate the 2010 CHES data with data from the Comparative Manifesto Project and the 2009 Eur- opean Elections Studies survey, and explore basic trends on party positioning since 1999. The dataset is available at the CHES website.
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- Bjarnegård, Elin, 1976-, et al.
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Political parties, formal selection criteria, and gendered parliamentary representation
- 2019
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 25:3, s. 325-335
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Political parties sometimes set up formal criteria to define the pool of potential candidates. This article represents the first large-scale comparative analysis of potential unintended gendered consequences of these formal selection criteria for parliamentary representation. Using unique data on 101 political parties in 32 African, Asian, and postcommunist European countries, we find that there is indeed a relationship between formal selection criteria and men's and women's political representation. Criteria that concern ethnic or geographic background and intraparty experiences are harmful to women. On the other hand, gendered consequences are not as pronounced as a result of criteria concerning qualifications or requirements in relation to electability. Taken together, the analysis points to the need to pay increased attention to formal selection criteria and how this under-researched aspect of candidate selection shapes the parliamentary representation of underrepresented groups.
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- Bäck, Hanna, et al.
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Bicameralism, intra-party bargaining, and the formation of party policy positions : Evidence from the German federal system
- 2016
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1460-3683 .- 1354-0688. ; 22:3, s. 405-417
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How do political parties arrive at their policy positions? We conceptualize position formation in federalist countries as an intra-party bargaining process in which subnational parties compete with each other in an attempt to get their own positions into their national party manifesto. Drawing on theories about inter-party bargaining over ministerial portfolios, we hypothesize that the bargaining success of subnational parties depends on their parliamentary strength. We evaluate our hypotheses based on a comprehensive dataset on policy positions of national and subnational parties in Germany from 1990 until 2009. Our results show that German subnational parties that are powerful in the second parliamentary chamber (Bundesrat) are particularly successful in shaping the manifesto of their national party. The findings have important implications for our understanding of intra-party politics and position formation within political parties in Germany more specifically and federalist countries more generally.
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- Dumitrescu, Delia, 1980, et al.
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National but European? Visual manifestations of Europe in national parties’ Euromanifestos since 1979
- 2017
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 23:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The architects of the European project made a significant effort to create a set of symbols for the community (such as the EU flag, the map of Europe, the anthem, etc.), and recent evidence suggests that the main European values are nowadays spontaneously associated with them. We know little, however, about if and when national political actors choose to display these symbolic visual manifestations of Europe. In this study, we examine the presence of such symbols in parties’ Euromanifestos since the first European elections. The presence of EU community symbols is correlated with several factors, suggesting that the display is consistent both with a policy-driven and with a vote-seeking logic. We explore at length the implications of these results for future visual analysis of parties’ European messages and for the larger issue of European identity.
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- Enroth, Henrik
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Cartelization Versus Representation? : On A Misconception in Contemporary Party Theory
- 2017
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : Sage Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 23:2, s. 124-134
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- According to a popular but controversial view in contemporary party research, political parties increasingly put a premium on governing within the institutions of the state rather than on representation of interests and identities in society. This critique has been phrased most uncompromisingly in Richard Katz and Peter Mair’s theory of the cartel party, according to which the cartel party governs but does not represent, and thus fails to do what we expect of parties in a modern democracy. This article is an analysis and critique of this presupposition, which has largely escaped the attention of commentators. The idea that the cartel party governs but does not represent rests on an untenable view of political representation. As I argue, the normative problem with the cartel party is not so much that this type of party does not represent, as to decide when and how it does or does not represent.
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- Ezrow, L., et al.
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Satisfaction with democracy and voter turnout: A temporal perspective
- 2016
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 22:1, s. 3-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Numerous studies conclude that countries in which citizens express higher levels of satisfaction with democracy also tend to display higher levels of voter turnout in national elections. Yet it is difficult to draw causal inferences from this positive cross-sectional relationship, because democracies feature many historical, cultural, and institutional differences that are not easily controlled for in cross-sectional comparisons. We apply an alternative, temporal approach to this issue by asking the question: Are over-time declines (increases) in aggregate levels of satisfaction within democracies associated with increases (declines) in levels of voter turnout within these democracies? Our temporal analysis of this relationship in 12 democracies over the period 1976-2011 reveals a pattern that is the opposite of that suggested by previous cross-sectional studies: namely, we find that over-time increases in citizens' satisfaction with democracy are associated with significant decreases in voter turnout in national elections in these countries.
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