State funding and party primaries

Nostitz, Felix‐Christopher von; Sandri, Giulia

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“…Party elites now seem convinced that providing new forms of engagement beyond traditional party membership could help them not only to recruit volunteers, but also increase their financial resources and -in the end -preserve their membership (Sandri et al 2015;Kölln 2016;Dommett 2020). Even though it is rather uncommon for supporters to pay much for being involved in party activities, and they pay markedly less than membership dues, they represent a way to encourage smaller donations and to collect significant amounts of funding during specific political events such as open primaries (Scarrow 2018;von Nostitz & Sandri 2018) .…”

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

Sandri

Nostitz

2021

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

Scarrow

2020

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Candidate spending and success in Israel’s party primaries: How far does money go?

Kenig

Atmor

2019

Party Politics

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The last decade has seen an upswing in and expansion of party primaries as a means of selecting legislative candidates in many parliamentary democracies. Yet, while most democracies around the world regulate the financial aspects of general elections, the same cannot be said for these intraparty contests. The absence of financial regulation in party primaries may explain why the effect of candidate spending on success has received so little attention in the literature. The current study seeks to investigate to what extent candidates’ spending affects their success, focusing on Israel’s legislative primary elections. Although the Israeli Party Law sets expenditure ceilings with the aim of leveling the playing field, there is considerable variance in the amount of money candidates raise, invest, and spend. This variance allows us to test the relationship between candidates’ expenditure and their success. Based on reports by the State Comptroller and on formal results of primary elections, we analyze seven primary contests that were held in three political parties between 2008 and 2015. Candidates’ success is measured in two ways: (1) the number of votes each candidate received, and (2) whether the candidate was elected to parliament. Our findings point to a strong positive correlation between the amount of money spent and the number of votes received. However, when factors such as incumbency and public familiarity are considered, the picture is more nuanced.

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State funding and party primaries

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

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

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

Candidate spending and success in Israel’s party primaries: How far does money go?

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