Compromise, Party Management and Fair Shares

The Case of the French UDF

Bibliographic Data

ID6314824
AuthorsDavid Hanley (corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume5
Issue2
Pages171-189
Publication date1999-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueParty Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354068899005002002
OpenAlexW2026137406
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited6

The French UDF has failed in its attempt to become a party capable of dominating the right at the expense of the Gaullist RPR. It is best regarded as an underdeveloped party which has difficulty in acting as a unitary organization. This failure is due to the exceptional historical and institutional context of its birth but also to the preference of its leaders for their existing organizations. To preserve these they have elaborated a sophisticated and measurable system of compromise between themselves and with the RPR which guarantees significant rewards. This underdeveloped status will probably continue indefinitely. In a wider context the UDF's failure sheds light on the difficulty of creating genuinely new partisan organizations

Business · Compromise · Context (archaeology · Economics · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Preference · Sociology · Unitary state · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender

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