Intra-party Democracy and Party Change

Abstract

In the past decades, political parties have undertaken different strategies to face party decline and strengthen their links to society, often by enhancing their levels of intra-party democracy (IPD), not always achieving the expected effect. Both the strategies followed by political parties to enhance IPD and the impact of those new measures are quite heterogeneous across different parties and settings. While there has been growing literature on the topic, the explanatory capacity of IPD to understand political outcomes or responses to political crisis or the role institutional factors might play deserves further attention. The answers to questions such as to what extent stronger leaderships or specific institutional designs might enhance intra-party democracy or to what extent findings based on western countries navigate to other political settings are still open. This panel aims to provide new insights to answer these questions with papers studying: a) the role of institutional designs, b) the role of party leaders, c) the role of IPD to understand political outcomes while exploring cases within and beyond Western democracies and applying both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

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