Closer to Citizens or Ticking Boxes? Political Parties and Participatory Practices in Hungary

Bibliographic Data

ID6180879
AuthorsDaniel Oro (0000-0003-4782-3007), Dániel Oross (0000-0001-8571-347X, Department of Political Behaviour, Institute for Political Science, Budapest, Hungary), Gherghina (0000-0002-6627-5598, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland)
Year2023
Volume56
Issue3
Pages127-149
Publication date2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunist and Post-Communist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0967-067X • E-ISSN: 1873-6920
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/cpcs.2023.1825060
OpenAlexW4382407329
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited31

Political parties use participatory practices to connect with their members and with the broader electorate. While substantial research indicates how people get involved, very little is known about why political parties use participatory practices. The present article addresses this gap in the literature and seeks to identify the reasons parties do so. We elaborate an analytical framework that includes three main categories of explanations: party characteristics, internal dynamics, and external dynamics. Our analysis focuses on Hungary, explores party statutes and manifestos, and relies on 26 semi-structured interviews with party elites from ten political parties. The findings indicate that parties have several purposes in mind, which vary across parties, that are often linked to broader concerns about citizen engagement and to attempts to give members a voice in internal and external decision-making processes

Citizen journalism · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Statute · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration · Social Media and Politics

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