Party Members as an Electoral Linking Mechanism

While party membership figures are clearly in decline in several Western countries, different interpretations have been offered on the likely consequences of this trend. Some authors stress that members have lost most of their importance for political parties that increasingly rely on professionalized campaign techniques. Other scholars have expressed concern about the decline of party membership. They emphasize the fact that party members continue to function as an important linkage mechanism providing a structural alignment between the party and society (and thus also to potential voters). By means of an election forecasting model for Belgium, we test whether party membership figures still can be related to election results. Results show that party membership has a strong effect on election results, and furthermore, that this relation does not weaken during the period under investigation (1981-2010). The analysis also demonstrates that forecasting models can also be used in a complex multiparty system like Belgium.

Training partnerships : linking employers & providers /

Shipping list no.: 90-717-P.

Linking drug abuse treatment programs with CETA /

Mode of access: Internet.

LSCA-- linking libraries to the future : report for 1992 /

"Library Services & Construction Act."

Linking ecosystems and biodiversity.

Shipping list no.: 92-240-P.

Fostering Illinois : linking families together for children's futures.

Title from caption.

Mobilizing the watershed community : linking land, water, and people.

"This document lays out Illinois EPA's approach to meeting these laws by providing the watershed community the opportunity to be the key decision makers in the process"--Cover.

Day thoughts on the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : with brief notes and instructions, also linking together, into a chain of truths, Old Testament scriptures with the New, and God's book of nature /

Mode of access: Internet.

Linking with voluntary youth-serving agencies /

"May 1980."

Linking surficial geomorphology with vertical structure in high and low energy marine environments

Senior thesis written for Oceanography 445

Methylomic and Transcriptomic Insights Linking Air Pollution and Atherosclerosis

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Linking superiority bias in the interpersonal and intergroup domains

The author conducted 2 studies to explore the link between superiority bias in the interpersonal and intergroup domains. Australian university students evaluated the extent to which various personality traits were more or less applicable to themselves than to other Australian university students in general. They then evaluated the extent to which the same traits were more or less applicable to Australians than to people from other countries in general. As expected, the more participants evaluated themselves as superior to other university students, the more they evaluated Australians as a whole as superior to people from other countries. This link between interpersonal and intergroup superiority biases explained 22.1% of variance in Study 1 and 33.6% of variance in Study 2. The author interprets the results of the 2 studies as support for fundamental principles of social identity theory: (a) that self-concept consists of not only one's personal self but also the social groups to which one belongs and (b) that people are motivated to view both levels of self in a relatively positive fashion.