Introducing the One-Party Membership Dataset

A dataset on party membership in autocracies

Bibliographic Data

ID3916608
AuthorsFabio Angiolillo (0000-0003-1474-6500, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume61
Issue4
Pages694-708
Publication date2024-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00223433231155278
OpenAlexW4367300360
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

Recent literature on autocracies focuses on elite politics to study ruling party stability. I focus on the lowest level of the ruling party structure, party members, to introduce new data on party-based autocracies. Party members are unique connectors between ruling party and society, and ruling parties can recur to them for policy enforcement, political control, co-optation and legitimation to secure power. I present the One-Party Membership Dataset (OPAMED), a comprehensive dataset on party membership in autocracies, covering 42 ruling parties across party-based regimes from 1945 to 2020, and introduce two new variables: party size; and party membership volatility. The first variable measures the membership-to-population ratio, while the second measures the rate of co-optation growth from one year to the other. In conclusion, the OPAMED provides a new, flexible and easy-to-use toolkit on ruling parties in party-based autocracies

Autocracy · Democracy · Economics · Elite · Enforcement · Legitimation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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