Governmental participation and the organizational adaptation of Green parties: On access, slack, overload and distress

Abstract

Abstract. This article explores the reciprocal links between the organizational transformation of Western European Green parties and their governmental experience. On the one hand, a series of hypotheses with regards to the possible link between prior organizational adaptation and eventual access to governmental participation are examined. On the other, the opposite question is addressed: that of the potential impact of governmental participation – and, more recently, exit from government – on further organizational adaptation. Following both a qualitative and a qualitative comparative (QCA) analysis, one ultimately identifies a link between prior organizational adaptation and eventual access to government, but a much more indirect and contrasted link between governmental participation (and exit from government) and further organizational adaptation.

Governments and unpopular social policy reform: Biting the bullet or steering clear?

“…Necessity as well as sufficiency can be conceptualised as set‐theoretical relationships, which makes fuzzy‐set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fs/QCA) 4 particularly apt for testing the argument outlined above (Ragin 1987, 2000; Schneider & Wagemann 2006; for recent applications of fuzzy‐set theory and QCA in this journal, see, e.g., Grendstad 2007; Pennings 2003; Rihoux 2006; Veugelers & Magnan 2005). The empirical analysis focuses on 25 German, Dutch, Danish and British cabinets between 1979 and 2005 5 .…”

Normative Beliefs in State Policy Choice

“…This need for new comparative methods in both the literature on ideas and politics and in state policy innovation and diffusion led us to qualitative comparative analysis, a method based on Boolean algebra minimization algorithms (Ragin 1987(Ragin , 2000Rihoux 2006). Many scholars recognize QCA as an effective alternative method of accounting for causal complexity (Grendstad 2007;Ragin 1987;Ragin et al 2003) for a larger number of cases, because it supplies multiple combinations of conditions that constitute different causal pathways to a given policy outcome.…”

Thinking Activists: Australian Greens Party Activists and Their Responses to Leadership

“…Key points of interest are emerging in these internal dynamics of parties (Vromen and Turnbull 2006), particularly between activists and central offices or parliamentary leadership (Seyd and Whiteley 1992;Whiteley, Seyd and Richardson 1994;Whiteley, Seyd and Billinghurst 2006), including continuing changes in the organisational structures of green parties (Carter 2008;Rihoux 2006). In examining the organisational development of the Australian Greens, it is important to retain a focus on the democratic processes within the party.…”