Selected Publications Using PPDB data

Organizing Political Parties: Representation, Participation, and Power edited by Susan E. Scarrow, Paul D. Webb, and Thomas Poguntke is available from Oxford University Press. More information is available on the publisher’s website .

Read an overview of the project in “Party Rules, Party Resources and the Politics of Parliamentary Democracies: How Parties Organize in the 21st Century”, in the December 2016 issue of Party Politics. For more information on the construction of the Intra-party Democracy Indexes from the PPDB data click here.

Articles, Chapters & Books

Rahat, Gideon (2024).”Party types in the age of personalized politics.” ,”Perspectives on Politics 22(1): 213-28.

Lisi, Marco (2024).”Conceptualising and Measuring Leadership Autonomy in Contemporary Party Organisations.” ,”Political Studies 72(1): 398-418.

Čakar, Dario Nikić, and Goran Čular (2023).”What Explains Party Membership in Post-Yugoslav Countries: Socialism, Nationalism, Clientelism or False Reporting?” ,”Politics in Central Europe 19(1): 61-87.

Tutnauer, Or, Gideon Rahat (2023). “Servants of Two (or More) Masters: Accounting for the Complexity of Intraparty Candidate Selection Methods,”Party Politics 29(1): 185-192.

Scarrow, Susan E., Jamie Wright, Anika Gauja (2023). “Party Statutes and Party Institutionalization,”Party Politics 29(2): 196-217.

Close, Caroline, Thomas Legein, Conor Little (2022). “Party organisation and the party-delegate style of representation,”Party Politics , online first.

van Haute, Emilie, Pedro Ribeiro (2022). “Country or party? Variations in party membership around the globe,”European Political Science Review , 14 (3): 281-95.

Pizzimenti, Eugenio, Enrico Calossi, Lorenzo Cicchi, Beniamino Massi (2022). “Do parties converge? An empirical analysis of party organizational and policy issue saliency change in Western Europe (1970–2010),”Journal of Contemporary European Studies on-line first.

Masi, Beniamino, Eugenio Pizzimenti (2022). “The political foundations of party organizational variance,”Comparative European Politics on-line first.

Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd et al. (2022). “Introducing the Party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets,”Party Politics on-line first.

Webb, Paul, Scarrow, Susan, & Poguntke, Thomas. (2022).Party Organization and Satisfaction with Democracy: Inside the Blackbox of Linkage Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties 32(1): 151-172.

Scarrow, Susan E., Paul D. Webb, Thomas Poguntke (2022). “Intra-party Decision-making in Contemporary Europe: improving representation or ruling with empty shells?,”Irish Political Studies 37(2): 196-217.

Ferreira da Silva, Frederico (2021). Party organizational change and leader effects on voting behavior: Linking the electoral and party faces of presidentialization,”Party Politics, 27 (4): 803-813.

Vandeleene, Audrey, Emilie van Haute. (2021). “A Comparative Analysis of Selection Criteria of Candidates in Belgium,”Frontiers in Political Science 3.

Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd et al. (2021). “All about the money? A cross-national study of parties’ relations with trade unions in 12 western democracies,” Party Politics 27(3): 407-417.

Scarrow, Susan (2021). Intra-Party Democracy and Party Unity: Varied Rules, Varied Consequences,” Representation, 57(1): 41-57.

Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd, Vibeke Wøien Hansen, David Marshall, Anne Rasmussen, & Paul D. Webb. (2021). “Competition and interaction: Party ties to interest groups in a multidimensional policy space,”European Journal of Political Research 60(2): 275-294.

Ponce, Aldo, Scarrow, Susan & Achury, Susan. (2020).”Quotas, Women’s Leadership and Grassroots Women Activists,”European Journal of Political Research 59(4): 867-885.

Rehmert, Jochen. (2020).”Candidacy Eligibility Criteria and Party Unity,”Comparative Political Studies 53(8): 1298-1325.

Achury, Susan, Susan Scarrow, Karina Kosiara-Pedersen & Emilie van Haute, E. (2020) “The Consequences of Membership Incentives: Do Greater Political Benefits Attract Different Kinds of Members?” Party Politics, 26(1): 56-68.

Close, Caroline, Sergiu Gherghina, Vivien Sierens (2019). “Prompting Legislative Agreement and Loyalty: What Role for Intra-Party Democracy?,” Parliamentary Affairs 72: 387-405.

Saglie, Jo. (2019) “Om partiorganisasjonenes iboende treghet” (“Concerning the inherent inertia of party organisations”), in Makt og opposisjon (Power and Opposition: Political Parties as the Paradox of Democracy), eds. Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Jo Saglie and Oyvind Ostrud.

Ribeiro, Pedro Floriano & Luis Locatelli (2019). “Time after time: party organizational strength in new and old democracies,” Opinião Pública 25 (1).

Van Haute, Emilie, and Caroline Close, eds. (2019) Liberal Parties in Europe. London: Routledge.

van Haute, Emilie, Pauwels Teun (2018). “The Vlaams Belang: Party Organisation and Party Dynamics,” in Reinhard Heinisch & Oscar Mazzoleni (eds.), Understanding Populist Party Organisation. The Radical Right in Western Europe, London, Palgrave, pp.49-77.

Beyens, Stephanie, Emilie van Haute & Tom Verthé. (2018), “How Liberal Parties Organise”, in Caroline Close & Emilie van Haute (eds), Liberal Parties in Europe. London: Routledge, pp. 348-363.

Meserve, Stephen, Sivagaminathan Palani & Daniel Pemstein. (2018). “Measuring Candidate Selection Mechanisms in European Elections: Comparing Formal Party Rules to Candidate Survey Responses,” European Union Politics 19 (1): 185-202.

Karlsen, Rune & Jo Saglie. (2017). “Party Bureaucrats, Independent Professionals, or Politicians? A Study of Party Employees,” West European Politics 40 (6): 1331–1351.

Beyens Stephanie, Kris Deschouwer, Emilie van Haute & Tom Verthé. (2017), “Born again, or born anew: Assessing the newness of the Belgian political party New-Flemish Alliance (N-VA)”, Party Politics 23(4): 389-399

Poguntke, Thomas, Susan Scarrow, Paul Webb, et al. (2016). “Party rules, party resources and the politics of parliamentary democracies: How parties organize in the 21st century.” Party Politics, 22(6), 661–678.

Childs, Sarah & Miki Caul Kittilson. (2016). “Feminizing Political Parties,” Party Politics 22 (5): 598–608.

 

Recent Conference Papers

Poguntke, Thomas, Susan E. Scarrow, and Paul D. Webb. (2020). “Comparing Party Organization in Parliamentary and Presidential Democracies: Structures, Resources and Rules.” European Consortium for Political Research General Conference (August).

Fabre, Elodie. (2020). “New Parties in a Changing Party System: La République En Marche and La France Insoumise.” European Consortium for Political Research General Conference (August).

Borz, Gabriela. (2020). “The Dimensionality and Causality of Party Organizational Change: a European Investigation.” European Consortium for Political Research General Conference (August).

Mazzoleni, Oscar and Gerrit Voerman. (2019). “Revitalizing grass-roots party membership? A cross-national evolutionary analysis.” European Consortium for Political Research general conference; Wroclaw, Poland.

García Díez, Fátima, Nicolás Miranda Olivares, Francisco Olucha-Sánchez, and Aldo Adrián Martínez-Hernández. (2019). “Latin American Intraparty Democracy: How Parties Organise in the New Century.” European Consortium for Political Research general conference; Wroclaw, Poland.

Uekami, Takayoshi, Hiroki Ogawa, Masako Tanaka, Asako Takashima and Yu Ahishi. (2019). “Explaining Political Party Support for Supra-Nationalism and Regionalism: A Comparative Study of Party Manifestos.” European Consortium for Political Research general conference; Wroclaw, Poland.

Gauja, Anika, Susan Scarrow and Jamie Wright. (2019). “Party Statutes as Political Roadmaps: What Do they Reveal?” European Consortium for Political Research general conference; Wroclaw, Poland.

Ponce, Aldo, Susan Scarrow and Susan Achury. (2019). “Bringing Women into the Party: Quotas, Women’s Leadership, and Women Activists in Europe.” Southern Political Science Association conference; Austin, TX USA.