Sage Journals
Party organisation and the party-delegate style of representation
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Abstract
Politicians perceive their representative role in a variety of ways: as a delegate of their party, a delegate of voters, or a trustee who exercises their mandate independent of any external principal. Existing research finds that the tendency to adopt a specific style of representation depends on system-level institutions and individuals’ political experience and profile. The influence of the party organisational context remains little-understood.
International populism: The radical right in the European Parliament
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Symposium on African political parties - Book review
Volume 28 Issue 2, March 2022
Vanguard or business-as-usual? ‘New’ movement parties in comparative perspective
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Abstract
The recent success of new movement parties in Europe brought the attention of party politics scholars to this hybrid party type. There are still many under-analysed theoretical and empirical aspects related to their organization and this article aims to show that despite sharing older movement parties’ traits, these ‘new’ movement parties introduce for the first time a unique combination of plebiscitarian intra-party democracy and party leadership empowerment.
Centralized or decentralized personalization? Measuring intra-party competition in open and flexible list PR systems
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Abstract
This article offers a comparative analysis of electoral intra-party competition in four countries – Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland and Luxembourg – based on an original data set of 79,621 candidates and 3150 party lists covering the last quarter century (1994–2017).