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How are Party Organizations Responding to Social Change?

Comparative Politics
Political Participation
Political Parties
Party Members
P177
Paul Webb
University of Sussex
R. Kenneth Carty
University of British Columbia
Public Opinion, Social Movements, Interest Groups, Political Parties and Policy Change

Building: Jean-Brillant, Floor: 2, Room: B-2325

Saturday 11:00 - 12:40 EDT (29/08/2015)

Abstract

This panel comprises four papers that address the organisational responses of political parties to their changing social and political environments. Specifically, it considers several party organisational dimensions, including finance, membership, intra-party democracy, and overall heuristic models of party organisational change. Three of the four papers are strongly empirical and draw on a variety of data sources, including a new cross-national political party database (PPDB) that takes in multiple dimensions of organisation across 20 contemporary democracies and more than 140 individual parties.

Title Details
Party Modeling and Changes in Party Organisation View Paper Details
Intra-Party Democracy in Post-Communist Europe: Explaining Stability and Change View Paper Details
Rules of Engagement? Party Membership Costs, New Forms of Party Affiliation, and Partisan Participation View Paper Details
Patterns of Party Funding in European Democracies View Paper Details