On the Internal Balance of Party Power
Party Organizations in New Democracies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6314686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingrid Van Biezen (0000-0002-7124-2002, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 395-417 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Party Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354068800006004001 |
| OpenAlex | W2095830787 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 16 |
This paper focuses on the relationship between the party central office and the party in public office in the relatively new democracies of Southern and East Central Europe. The analysis reveals that, although the party executives are strongly invaded by public office holders, it is, contrary to expectations, not the party in public office but the party central office that emerges as the most predominant of the two faces. It appears that party organizations in these new democracies are largely controlled from a small centre of power, located at the intersection of the extra-parliamentary organization and the party in public office. This phenomenon, it is argued, can probably be best explained as a device to increase party cohesion and to reduce the potentially destabilizing consequences that emerge from a context of weakly developed party loyalties and a general lack of party institutionalization
Balance (ability · Communism · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Institutionalisation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public office · Realigning election · Socialism · Sociology · Split-ticket voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration
Political Parties
The Presidentialization of Spanish Democracy
The party-on-the-Net
The Ascendancy of the Party in Public Office
Party Organization and the Political Success of the Communist Successor Parties
Party Membership Role and Party Cartelization in Belgium and Italy
Europeanization and the Communist Successor Parties in Post‐Communist Politics
Divide et Impera’? Office Accumulation in State-wide Parties and the Process of Decentralization in Spain
Cartelisation, organisational legacies and radical left politics in government
The differential impact of state finance on the Romanian party system
What Changes in South European Parties? A Comparative Introduction
Party and gender in Western Europe revisited
Programmatic Adaptation and Organizational Centralization in the AP-PP
The Partisan Usage of Parliamentary Salaries
Losers' Second Chances and Control of the Party Machine
Intra-party Balance of Power
The ‘genetic’ effect
Analysing intra-party power
Inside the Cartel Party
Staying in the First League
Patrons Against Partisans
Assessing the Impact of Campaign Finance on Party System Institutionalization
Multi-Level Relations in Political Parties
Political Parties in Bulgaria
Dissent in a Party-Based Parliament
Towards a Trustee Model? Parliamentary Representation in the Internet Era
Intra-party delegation in the Portuguese legislature
Party Mergers and Splits in New Democracies
Exceptionalism, Political Science and the Comparative Analysis of Political Parties
An internalist perspective on party consolidation and the Bulgarian Union of Democratic Forces
On the theory and practice of party formation and adaptation in new democracies
Re-conceptualising Russian party politics
Members and leaders in Russian party organisations
Interpersonal Resources and Insider/Outsider Dynamics in Party Office
Crafting Mass Partisanship at the Grass Roots
Em nome da coesão
Un gouvernement des pairs
An Amphibian Party? Organisational Change and Adaptation in the Brazilian Workers' Party, 1980-2012
Party systems and voter alignments
The Evolution of Party Organizations in Europe
Party System Change
Political Parties in Western Democracies
Comparative Political Finance in the 1980s
How Parties Organize
Funding Democratization
Politics in Eastern Europe
Political actors, linkages and interactions
Building party organisations and the relevance of past models
Party Families and Democratic Performance
The Electoral Payoffs of Fission and Fusion
Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy
Negative and positive party identification in post-Communist countries
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,52 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |