Movement parties in Europe
A comparative assessment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9537448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Endre Borbáth (0000-0002-2980-8586, Heidelberg University, corresponding author), Fred Paxton (0000-0001-5635-8448, University of Glasgow) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Politica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-6810 • E-ISSN: 1741-1416 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/s41269-024-00381-3 |
| OpenAlex | W4405421066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 42 |
Research on political parties and social movements has long developed independently, separated by the disciplinary boundaries of political science and sociology. We see the recent successes of ‘movement parties’ as a push to bridge the two disciplinary traditions in order to describe this new hybrid party type accurately. To this end, we ask to what extent and under what conditions do we observe movement parties in European party systems, and how can we define the various subtypes? In the introduction to the special issue, we make three contributions. First, we identify existing definitions and empirical examples in the study of movement parties based on a systematic review of the emerging literature. Second, we operationalize Herbert Kitschelt's influential definition of lower levels of programmatic and organizational investment coupled with a higher degree of protest mobilization. Third, we introduce the individual contributions to the special issue and situate them within the relevant theoretical debates. Utilizing a new set of quantitative indicators, we empirically assess how parties identified as movement parties in the existing literature score on programmatic, organizational, and protest dimensions. The analysis underscores the heterogeneity of movement parties, with only a few cases aligning with Kitschelt's comprehensive definition
Comparative politics · Discipline · Economics · Epistemology · Movement (music · Operationalization · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public relations · Set (abstract data type · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Media and Politics
Populism, radicalism, and protest mobilization by parties in Europe
The habitus of activism
The mainstreaming of the far right and democratic erosion. Three analytical pathways
Representational gaps and movement institutionalization
How movement parties contest democratic backsliding
Why social movements struggle to change the EU
Where have all the Pirates gone? strategic party interactions in the electoral stagnation, rise, and fall of the Pirates
Can we still talk about ‘movement parties’? The radical left and new forms of party organisation
Introduction
Movement party as a framing strategy
Party system transformation from below
Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties
Far-right movement-party activism as strategy
A revolution in representation? Insider perspectives on a failed democratic experiment
The movementization of political parties
Understanding Populist Party Organisation
When Movements Become Parties
Movement Parties
Movement Parties Against Austerity
Street Citizens
The polyvalent populism of the 5 Star Movement
Going, going, . . . gone? The decline of party membership in contemporary Europe
Party Organization and the Radical Right
Which organization for which party? An organizational analysis of the Five-star Movement
No Strong Leaders Needed? AfD Party Organisation Between Collective Leadership, Internal Democracy, and “Movement-Party” Strategy
This is not a party”
How Does Climate Change Transnationalise Environmental Movement Organisations? The Case of Denmark
From Protest to Party
In the Name of “Endangered Nations” and “Unsovereign States”? Official Discourses of Radical Right Movement Parties and Social Movement Organizations in Poland and Germany
Young democrats, critical citizens and protest voters
Party system transformation from below
Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties
Far-right movement-party activism as strategy
Radical right and anti-vax protests between movements and parties
Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged
Hacking the representative system through deliberation? The organization of the Agora party in Brussels
Seeing the radical right movement parties as activist parties. The case of Ekre in Estonia
Movement party as a framing strategy
Voting for Movement Parties in Southern Europe
Protesting Parties in Europe
Movement parties of the left, right, and center
Activist Parties and Hybrid Party Behaviours
Citizenship Norms and the Expansion of Political Participation
Party Types in the Age of Personalized Politics
Competing on the issues
Close ever, distant never? Integrating protest event and social network approaches into the transformation of the Hungarian far right
Species of Political Parties
Ballots and barricades enhanced
Movement Parties of the Far Right
Vanguard or business-as-usual? ‘New’ movement parties in comparative perspective
Party innovation, hybridization and the crisis
Party Movements in the United States and Canada
Ballots and Barricades
Protest Event Analysis
Social Movements, Party Organization, and Populism
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 15 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |