Party Members and Their Importance in Non-EU Countries
Although party membership has been extensively analysed in the EU Members States from Western and Eastern Europe, there is a gap in systematic data collection and analyses for the other countries in the Balkans and post-Soviet region.
This book provides new and innovative insights in the area of party membership research to analyse the evolution of membership organizations in political parties from under-investigated countries. Specifically, it seeks to understand the way in which political parties and the national legislation conceptualize the notion of membership within and across countries. It provides original data and affords a first comprehensive, comparative study of party members in the EU neighbouring countries, which resonate particular interest because some of them occupy the precarious middle ground between a full-fledge democracy and outright dictatorship. In light of these relevant observations, this systematic analysis of membership evolutions in democratizing countries brings valuable insights for the study of party politics in general.
This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party systems, party organisation and elections, post-Soviet and East European politics and more broadly to democratization studies and comparative politics.
Sergiu Gherghina is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, UK.
Alexandra Iancu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest, Romania.
Sorina Soare is a Lecturer of Comparative Politics at the University of Florence, Italy.
Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems
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Ingrid van Biezen, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Fernando Casal Brtoa, University of Nottingham, UK
This new series focuses on major issues affecting political parties in a broad sense. It welcomes a wide-range of theoretical and methodological approaches on political parties and party systems in Europe and beyond, including comparative works examining regions outside of Europe. In particular, it aims to improve our present understanding of these topics through the examination of the crisis of political parties and challenges party organizations face in the contemporary world, the increasing internal complexity of party organizations in terms of regulation, funding, membership, the more frequent presence of party system change, and the development of political parties and party systems in under-researched countries.
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Party Members and Their Importance in Non-EU Countries
A Comparative Analysis
Edited by Sergiu Gherghina, Alexandra Iancu and Sorina Soare
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Contents
SERGIU GHERGHINA, ALEXANDRA IANCU, AND SORINA SOARE
ANJEZA XHAFERAJ
JASMIN HASI AND MAHIR SIJAMIJA
NANULI SILAGADZE
DANE TALESKI, VIKTOR DIMOVSKI, AND MUHAMED HALILI
IGOR BUCATARU AND VALERIU MOSNEAGA
ZLATKO VUJOVI
DUAN SPASOJEVI AND ZORAN STOJILJKOVI
AGNIESZKA K. CIANCIARA AND KAMILA ZACHARUK