Intra-Party Democracy and Party Unity: Varied Rules, Varied Consequences

Scarrow, Susan E.

doi:10.1080/00344893.2020.1785537

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“…The concept of participation refers to citizens' involvement in political processes: voting, consultation, and deliberation, often with help of electronic tools. Political parties have moved toward higher levels of participation in recent years, incorporating primaries as mechanisms for selecting leaders and candidates (Sandri et al, 2015;Cross et al, 2016) and making more frequent use of intraparty referendums (Scarrow, 2021). In addition to the previous evidence, an analysis of European parties based on expert survey data from the V-Party Dataset V2 provides valuable insights into their inclinations on important issues such as membership participation in decision-making and the level of elitism.…”

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From open government to open parties in Europe. A framework for analysis

Villaplana,

Megías,

Sandri

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Open government (OG) is an increasingly used management model among the public administrations of European countries and of the European Union, which is currently working on The Path to the Digital Decade. This supposes the application of measures to promote proximity and citizenship's prominence in many public policies, leading to improved quality of democracy. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to a forced digitalization of many public services. Despite the fact that studies on OG do not usually focus on them, political parties are essential actors for the success or failure of OG measures, both from a bottom-up and a top-down perspective, on public administration transformation. Moreover, political parties are transforming themselves into more open organizations at the same time. We define open parties as political parties with high standards in transparency, participation, and collaboration. They also feature high degrees of organizational digitalization. This article proposes a framework for analyzing political parties' openness and explores available empirical data on different aspects related to OG in the European context. We have found that most parties possess a good level of local organizational strength but still need to reach better levels of anticorruption commitment, to form stronger ties with affiliated organizations, and especially to improve the participation of members and activists in their decision-making. Furthermore, elitism, clientelism, and populistic rhetoric represent significant obstacles that could hinder the party reform process.

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Section: Parties and Participationmentioning

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From open government to open parties in Europe. A framework for analysis

Villaplana,

Megías,

Sandri

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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“…Further, these recent reforms challenges the traditional variation in terms of rights, obligations and forms of involvement among the different modes of partisan affiliation in established democracies and thus needs to be empirically documented and analysed. While the variation in membership forms within 'multi-speed membership parties' has been explored by a growing empirical literature (Scarrow 2015(Scarrow & 2020Kosiara-Pedersen et al 2017), the role, powers and activities of non-members within parties remain less clearly outlined by existing studies and needs to be comparatively and empirically assessed Ignazi 2020;Scarrow 2020).…”

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Party guests or party crashers? Non-members’ political engagement across party organizations

Sandri

Nostitz

2021

QOE-IJES

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Over the past decade, many parties have created new possibilities for affiliating and involving citizens, often rivalling the classic conception of party membership. So far, the existing literature has mainly focused on classifying these new and different types of affiliates. However, little attention has been paid to what these “non-full-membership” options imply in terms of formal rights and obligations. We explore here the opportunities that parties offer to non-members to participate and get involved in intra-party activities and we contrast them with the rights and obligations of full, fee-paying, traditional members. This article addresses this gap based on an original database consisting of membership rules in 68 parties in 13 established democracies. We not only map the current landscape of rules managing the involvement of non-members within parties, but also explore potential factors- party family and size- explaining the variation across parties. We find a strong association between party family and the range of possibilities for non-members’ involvement with parties on the left and environmental parties providing more space for the participation of non-members. We also find that smaller parties tend to involve more non-full-members by allocating more rights to them. Our findings and new database provide a first step for future research to study the regulation of the involvement of non-members in intra-party activities, what determines it, and how it affects the traditional concept of party membership and societal linkage.

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Regierungsfindung mit Basisbeteiligung: Die Koalitionsentscheidung der SPD Berlin als Anwendungsfall innerparteilicher Demokratie

Kannenberg,

Schindler

2024

Z Politikwiss

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Intra-Party Democracy and Party Unity: Varied Rules, Varied Consequences

Cited by 10 publications

References 56 publications

From open government to open parties in Europe. A framework for analysis

From open government to open parties in Europe. A framework for analysis

Party guests or party crashers? Non-members’ political engagement across party organizations

Regierungsfindung mit Basisbeteiligung: Die Koalitionsentscheidung der SPD Berlin als Anwendungsfall innerparteilicher Demokratie

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