Democratising Party Leadership Selection in Belgium: Motivations and Decision Makers

Wauters, Bram

doi:10.1111/1467-9248.12002

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“…These stimuli were concluded on the basis of an analysis of the states representing majoritarian model of democracy. As other studies have shown, the influence of these factors has not been retained in Belgium, which is a consensual democracy [Wauters 2014].…”

Section: Direct Elections Of Party Leadersmentioning

confidence: 83%

Party leadership in Poland in comparative perspective

Radecki

2016

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The aim of this paper is to analyse leadership in Polish political parties in comparative perspective. In the further parts of this paper, the methods of leader selections, their competitiveness, as well as reasons for their stepping down are discussed. Similarly to the western political parties, the Polish ones have been changing their methods of leadership selection. So far each time it has consisted in a formal increase in the inclusiveness of the selection. The reasons for transferring the rights relating to the leadership selection to party members were brought closer to the premises typical for Westminster democracies rather than the consensual ones. The analysis of the Polish case shows that the internal elections have been characterized by different levels of competitiveness.

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Section: Direct Elections Of Party Leadersmentioning

confidence: 83%

Party leadership in Poland in comparative perspective

Radecki

2016

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“…Therefore, we expect that local chapters of rightist national parties have less programmatic freedom compared to leftist local chapters. Although recent comparative research (Pilet & Cross, 2014) does not provide rock-hard evidence of this leftist democratic tradition because all parties (left and rightwing) have made efforts to increase the voice of party members in the internal workings of the party (Heider et al, 2012;LeDuc, 2001;Wauters, 2014). We assume that the chances of ideological nationalization are larger within rightist parties.…”

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confidence: 99%

Birds of a Feather or by Note? Ideological Nationalization of Local Electoral Manifestos in Belgium

Voorde¹,

Bouteca²,

Schamp³

et al. 2018

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Until now, scholars trying to unravel the phenomenon of nationalization have seldom considered the local policy layer or the ideological dimension as their main subject. This paper, however, studies the ideological nationalization of Flemish local party branches. It applies the method of content analysis of electoral manifestos to the local elections and examines the programmatic overlaps between the party headquarter and its local branches. An innovative nationalization measure is introduced and subsequently included in an explanatory regression model. The results show that ideological similarities are ubiquitous and especially prevailing among leftist parties, in majority-participating party branches and in large municipalities.

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“…It comes then as no surprise that in a cross-national perspective, Belgian parties score high on the plebiscitary intra-party democracy index developed by Poguntke et al (2016). Th e fi rst major breakthrough of VB in 1991 (and the accompanying perceived 'gap' between citizens and politics) is oft en cited as one of the reasons for this democratization (Wauters, 2014). It is then perhaps no coincidence that VB did not take part in this evolution towards a plebiscitary party leadership selection.…”

Section: Selection Of Party Leadersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Populist Party Leaders in Belgium: an Analysis of VB AND PVDA-PTB

Wauters

Pittoors

2019

Polish Political Science Review

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This article scrutinizes the position and the role of the party leader in two populist parties in Belgium: Vlaams Belang (VB) and Partij van de Arbeid — Parti du Travail de Belgique (PVDA-PTB). Following Mudde’s definition, populism is understood as a people-centered and anti-elitist ideology. The article argues that, if one accepts the notion that parties will organize themselves in line with their ideological beliefs, then one should expect populist parties to exhibit three main characteristics: leaders are directly elected by the party members, they have extensive powers with only minimal intra-party institutional checks, and they feature strongly in electoral campaigns. Applying this argument to the two Belgian populist parties, the article finds only limited evidence for the argument that populist parties mirror their ideology in the role and position of their party leader.

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Democratising Party Leadership Selection in Belgium: Motivations and Decision Makers

Cited by 37 publications

References 19 publications

Party leadership in Poland in comparative perspective

Party leadership in Poland in comparative perspective

Birds of a Feather or by Note? Ideological Nationalization of Local Electoral Manifestos in Belgium

Populist Party Leaders in Belgium: an Analysis of VB AND PVDA-PTB

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