Managed intra-party democracy

Aylott, Nicholas; Bolin, Niklas

doi:10.1177/1354068816655569

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“…by e-voting. Leadership literature focuses rather on mechanisms of their selection and election such as primaries and the respective voting technique (Aylott & Bolin, 2016;Chiru, et al 2015;Chiru & Gherghina, 2017) or the instrumentalization of primaries towards party membership (Astudillo & Detterbeck, 2018). For candidates and leaders, web-based communication technologies also provide a considerable and nowadays crucial channel for campaigning and relationship management.…”

Section: Mainstream Parties In the Digital: Public Image Leadership mentioning

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Tactical Web Use in Bumpy Times – a Comparison of Conservative Parties’ Digital Presence

Borucki¹,

Fitzpatrick²

2019

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Facing the ubiquitous and asynchronous nature of digital communication and interaction, parties face the challenge to migrate to some extent into the digital (Fitzpatrick 2018). This is not the case for election campaigns, but for the time in-between elections due to reasons for raising funds and other resources. These processes often rely on the digital sphere. Parties are not only challenged by relocating their communication strategies in normal times into new vessels, but also to encounter increased interactional demands by their target groups - members and supporters (Scarrow 2015). This comes along with the well-researched decline of established parties due to different societal causes (van Biezen, Poguntke 2014; Whiteley 2011, Montigny 2015). Parties’ adaptation of information and communication technologies (ICT) poses another challenge: How to migrate into the digital without losing those who are already engaged offline? How can parties manage to get the best out of both worlds – online and offline – and meet the demands of their adherents? These questions are connected to the research of intra-party democracy (e.g. Close et al. 2017; Faucher and Boy 2018; Bernardi et al. 2017) and leadership (Poguntke and Webb 2005; Musella 2018) as well as to research on parties’ virtual presence (e.g. Römmele 2003).We seek to understand how parties operate online in terms of building relationships between the organization and its members as well as fostering relationships between individual adherents. To grasp what is going on, we analyze parties’ websites and Facebook fan pages. We follow a comparative approach by conducting a pair-comparison. Our cases are the British Conservative Party and the German Christian Democratic Union with a panel data set from 2013 to 2018. Both parties hold governmental responsibility and face national turmoil within their countries. We analyze websites because we assume them serving as a hub of information and exchange for members and supporters. This allows us to investigate how both channels of ICTs are used either to disseminate information or to establish dialogue and discourse on platform media.

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Tactical Web Use in Bumpy Times – a Comparison of Conservative Parties’ Digital Presence

Borucki¹,

Fitzpatrick²

2019

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“…There are strong substantive and methodological reasons for such an emphasis. At the same time, it has been increasingly acknowledged that the preselection phase of leader selection—that is, the process prior to an actual decision by the “selectorate,” the organ with the formal right to appoint a leader—is often just as important, perhaps more so, for understanding the outcome (Allern & Karlsen, 2014; Aylott & Bolin, 2017, 2021, p. 55; Ennser‐Jedenastik & Müller, 2014, p. 68). Even when leader selection occurs entirely as party rules stipulate, the crucial decisions may have already been made—perhaps formally and transparently, but sometimes informally and behind the scenes—by others, before the selectorate enters stage, and possibly even before the position of leader has become vacant.…”

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Locating power in party leader selection

Aylott

Bolin

2022

Scand Pol Stud

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In this article, the aim is to enhance our understanding of who has power over leader selection in political parties. To this end, we apply an analytical framework in which the selection process is divided into three phases: gatekeeping, preparation and decision. The focus is on determining the extent to which each of these phases is influential for the outcome and thereby locating the distribution of intra‐party power. Underpinning the analysis is the conviction that the comparison of leader selection is too limited if it relies solely on information about formal procedures, including the composition of the selectorate. We should also take the preselection phase of leader selection into account. Empirically, we examine a sample of recent selection processes in European parliamentary democracies. In contrast to previous research on intra‐party politics, which has suggested an ascendancy of the party in public office, our results suggest an enduring strength of the party on the ground and the party in the central office.

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“… 9. We only identified those candidate selection processes as primaries in which the selectorate could choose between at least two candidates. If only one candidate was seeking the nomination of her party, it is likely that the candidate was designated by the party elite (Aylott and Bolin, 2016). See Table A1 in the Online Appendix for an overview on the characteristics of the primary elections covered in the analysis. …”

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Do regional party primaries affect the ideological cohesion of political parties in multilevel systems? Evidence from Spain

Debus¹,

Navarrete

2018

Party Politics

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Parties have strong incentives to present a relatively cohesive policy position to the voters across different levels of a political system. However, the adoption of inclusive forms of candidate selection methods like primaries could result in the selection of top candidates for elections on the subnational sphere who are not favoured by the party leadership. This is often seen as a threat to high levels of intra-party programmatic cohesion. Because subnational party organizations depend to a significant degree on the support from their national party, we argue that regional party branches that selected their top candidates by means of a primary adopt a policy position that deviates less strongly from the one of their national party. However, candidates selected by primaries might need to be responsive to the preferences of their regional selectorate, so that the incentives for parties at a regional level to deviate substantially from the position of their national party organization could increase. By analysing the content of 150 regional election manifestos of Spanish parties, we find that if a party’s top candidate for a regional election is selected in a primary, then the policy distance between the respective regional and national party decreases. However, this effect is not observable for recently founded parties.

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Managed intra-party democracy

Cited by 39 publications

References 35 publications

Tactical Web Use in Bumpy Times – a Comparison of Conservative Parties’ Digital Presence

Tactical Web Use in Bumpy Times – a Comparison of Conservative Parties’ Digital Presence

Locating power in party leader selection

Do regional party primaries affect the ideological cohesion of political parties in multilevel systems? Evidence from Spain

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