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Living Apart Together? The Organization of Political Parties beyond the Nation-State: The Flemish Case
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Abstract This article aims to contribute both theoretically and empirically to the study of political parties in the EU context, focusing on party organisation. Theoretically, it draws on insights from various literatures to develop a novel typology of multilevel party organisation specific to the EU context... mehr
This article aims to contribute both theoretically and empirically to the study of political parties in the EU context, focusing on party organisation. Theoretically, it draws on insights from various literatures to develop a novel typology of multilevel party organisation specific to the EU context. It argues that parties are goal-seeking actors that choose their organisation based on a cost-benefit analysis, involving both party characteristics and the institutional context. Empirically, the article applies this framework on the Flemish political parties. It finds that rational goal-seeking behaviour cannot fully account for parties' organisational choices. Results show that normative and historical considerations play a crucial role in parties' cost-benefit analysis. It therefore calls upon future research to expand the number of comparative studies and to further assess parties' goal-seeking behaviour regarding their multilevel organisation.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
EU; Partei; Organisationsstruktur; Parteipolitik
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
European Union; multilevel democracy; political parties; vertical integration
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 50-60
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 8 (2020) 1
Heftthema
Political Behavior in the EU Multi-Level System
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)