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Intra-Party Democracy: A Functionalist Account [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 This paper articulates a functionalist account of intra-party democracy (IPD). Like realist critics, we insist that IPD practices be evaluated on the basis of whether they facilitate resistance to domination and capture at the level of the polity as a whole, and therefore accept certain realist worries about IPD.
Bagg, S., Bhatia, U.
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Populism and intra‐party democracy [PDF]
European Journal of Political Research, 2022 AbstractThis article examines how populism is linked to party organization and, specifically, intra‐party democracy. Populism can be defined as an ideology (ideational perspective), which is characterized by anti‐elitism, people‐centrism and a discourse emphasizing a moral struggle between ‘good people’ and ‘the elite’.
TOBIAS BÖHMELT +2 more
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Managing Intra-Party Democracy: Comparing the French Socialist and British Labour Party Conferences [PDF]
, 2003 The French Socialists and British Labour consider intra-party democracy as a central tenet of their philosophies. It is a core value that orientates their political attitudes and defines their identity.
Flink, Roland +4 more
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A Rationale for Intra-Party Democracy [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 This paper provides a rationale for intra-party democracy within a political agency model with moral hazard. The focus is on the party's internal procedures for policy determination. I show that democratizing those procedures benefits the party leadership, which seeks to maximize joint reelection chances of the party's incumbents.
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Membership ballots and the value of intra-party democracy [PDF]
, 2018 On the face of it, membership ballots present a clear case in which intra-party democ-racy comes into collision with core principles of representative democracy: they weaken the autonomy of representatives, and undermine the authority of the voters.
Wolkenstein, Fabio
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A Deliberative Model of Intra-Party Democracy [PDF]
Journal of Political Philosophy, 2015 AbstractThis chapter aims to answer the question of how exactly internally democratic parties should look, developing a ‘deliberative model of intra-party democracy’. The main justification of such a model is first, that deliberation can cater better to the demand for political self-expression many citizens share than merely aggregative democratic ...
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Between patronage and good governance: organizational arrangements in (local) public appointment processes [PDF]
, 2018 This article investigates whether certain organizational arrangements in (local) public appointment processes could encourage the use of appointments as a tool of good governance rather than as a tool of patronage.
Grossi, Giuseppe +2 more
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Intra-party democracy beyond aggregation [PDF]
Party Politics, 2016 Contemporary scholarship on intra-party democracy pays a great deal of attention to aggregative procedures like primaries or membership ballots but widely ignores deliberative procedures within parties. This article begins by highlighting why scholars should care about deliberation within parties, discussing several functions intra-party deliberation ...
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The perils of semi-presidentialism. Are they exaggerated? [PDF]
, 2008 There is a standard academic consensus that semi-presidentialism is perilous for new democracies. In particular, this is because semi-presidential countries run the risk of experiencing difficult periods of ‘cohabitation’ between a president and a prime ...
Elgie, Robert
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INTRA-PARTY AUTOCRACY OF TURKEY’S PARTY SYSTEM [PDF]
, 2014 Democratic systems are unthinkable without political parties. Since its transition to multi-party politics in 1950, Turkey has enjoyed a stable yet limited level of stability in its multi-party system.
Celep, Ödül
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