Devolution and party organizational change: The British and Spanish and state-wide parties compared


Autoria(s): Fabre, Elodie; Méndez-Lago, Mónica
Contribuinte(s)

Swenden, Wilfried

Maddens, Bart

Data(s)

2009

Resumo

This article investigates the link between regionalization of the structure of government, regional elections and regionalism on the one hand, and the organization of state-wide political parties in Spain and the UK on the other. It particularly looks at two aspects of the relations between the central and regional levels of party organization: integration of the regional branches in central decision making and autonomy of the regional branches. It argues that the party factors are the most crucial elements explaining party change and that party leaders mediate between environmental changes and party organization. The parties' history and beliefs and the strength of the central leadership condition their ability or willingness to facilitate the emergence of meso-level elites. The institutional and electoral factors are facilitating factors that constitute additional motives for or against internal party decentralization

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http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/devolution-and-party-organizational-change-the-british-and-spanish-and-statewide-parties-compared(d798e82e-da6a-4356-ac38-596d5d590dc4).html

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Palgrave Macmillan

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

Fonte

Fabre , E & Méndez-Lago , M 2009 , Devolution and party organizational change: The British and Spanish and state-wide parties compared . in W Swenden & B Maddens (eds) , Territorial party politics in Western Europe . Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke , pp. 102-18 .

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