Movements, Parties and Movement Parties

Abstract

The boundary between movements and parties as two forms of political organization has always been a blurred one. The evolution of social movements into fully-fledged parties that has been frequently observed over the last decades has re-gained saliency by the success of new players that entered party politics as (self-declared or actual) movements claiming to embody new forms of political organization. Simultaneously, we see that parties try to reinvigorate themselves by establishing links to movements or by forming strategic alliances with them to reach new pools of supporters or reconnect with society. This panel explores the diversity of relationships that parties and movements cultivate with each other in different regions and contexts. It further discusses when these two forms of political organization are best distinguished from each other and be approached as two qualitatively different organizational forms with their own structures and goal orientations and when what we see starts resembling a hybrid structure best approached as movement party or party movement.

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