Political Parties in Multi-Level Polities

Aylott, Nicholas; Blomgren, Magnus; Bergman, Torbjörn

doi:10.1057/9781137315540

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“…However, the impact of the Greens on European policy was extremely limited. The Social Democrats emphasized that European policy was not something to be influenced by the supporting parties, and the Greens did not focus much upon their European policy in this period (Aylott et al ., forthcoming). Whatever the symbolic impact of a negative European referendum result may have been, it is clear that this was not indicative of a Green Eurosceptic impact.…”

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Coming in from the Cold? Euroscepticism, Government Participation and Party Positions on Europe*

Taggart

Szczerbiak

2012

J of Common Market Studies

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The focus of the article is to use the changed landscape of Euroscepticism to look broadly across a set of cases of government participation by parties holding Eurosceptical positions to examine whether government participation has an effect on their European positions and whether participation by Eurosceptic parties in government has had an effect on their European policy. In general, while there does seem to be a moderating effect of government participation on a party's Euroscepticism, there are notable cases of Eurosceptic party participation in government having some discernible impact on policy, but under somewhat specific conditions. The impact is clearly different for major and minor parties and, in the case of the latter, moderating their Euroscepticism is often a signifier of a wider process of party mainstreaming. In some cases, while parties continue to use Eurosceptic rhetoric when in office, this does not appear to translate into substantial policy change.

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Section: Casesmentioning

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Coming in from the Cold? Euroscepticism, Government Participation and Party Positions on Europe*

Taggart

Szczerbiak

2012

J of Common Market Studies

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“…We envisage members as the ultimate intra-party principals (Müller, 2000; also Aylott et al, 2013: 26–31), who delegate via separate channels to party leaders and to aspiring politicians (i.e. election candidates).…”

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Managed intra-party democracy

Aylott

Bolin

2016

Party Politics

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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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“…Consequently, the trend towards MLG has created an increased interest in studying the interaction of different levels within national parties (Deschouwer ; Carty ; Houten ; Swenden & Maddens ; Allern & Saglie ; Bolleyer ; Aylott et al. ). These studies are often positioned in relation to traditional party literature, which is accused of speaking the ‘single‐level language’ too strongly (Deschouwer , 213).…”

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Divided Interests: Multi‐level Parties and the Politics of Territorial Reform in Sweden

Feltenius

2015

Scand Pol Stud

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In the beginning of 2007, the Committee on Public Sector Responsibilities (CPSR) presented its final report on the future organization of the intermediate level of government in Sweden. The CPSR, which consisted of representatives from all parties in parliament, recommended replacing the existing structure of 20 county councils with six to nine regional municipalities. The committee's proposal is paradoxical in light of the resistance to regions that exists within the country's two largest parties: the Social Democrats and the Moderates. The purpose of this article is to describe and explain the CPSR's unanimous proposal to establish regional municipalities despite this resistance. How was it possible to achieve a unanimous proposal? In order to explain this paradox, I use the 'multi-level party' theoretical approach. The empirical study, consisting of a qualitative case study of the actions of the Moderates and the Social Democrats on territorial policy, supports this theoretical construct. It is evident from the empirical record that groups within the parties had different views about territorial policy. Within the CPSR, the advocates for regions took control, which made a unanimous proposal possible. The research findings improve our understanding of party organization in a polity characterized by multilevel governance. When the central level delegates more power and responsibility to subnational levels, the balance of power within parties changes. New regional and local elites arise, which makes it possible for a single party to communicate different messages on territorial policy depending on which group is in charge within a particular arena.

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Political Parties in Multi-Level Polities

Cited by 21 publications

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Coming in from the Cold? Euroscepticism, Government Participation and Party Positions on Europe*

Coming in from the Cold? Euroscepticism, Government Participation and Party Positions on Europe*

Managed intra-party democracy

Divided Interests: Multi‐level Parties and the Politics of Territorial Reform in Sweden

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