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Measuring party organization : The vertical dimension of the multi-level organization of state-wide parties in Spain and the UK

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Over the past few years, attention to the role of state-wide political parties in multi-level polities has increased in recognition of their linkage function between levels of government, as these parties compete in both state-wide and regional elections across their countries. This article presents a coding scheme designed to describe the relationship between central and regional levels of state-wide parties. It evaluates the involvement of the regional branches in central decision-making and their degree of autonomy in the management of regional party affairs. This coding scheme is applied to state-wide parties in Spain (the socialist PSOE and the conservative Partido Popular) and in the UK (Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats). It is an additional tool with which to analyse party organization and it facilitates the comparison of parties across regions and in different countries.

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Party Politics

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Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2011

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English

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13540688

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Vol. 17 no. 3, May 2011.pp. 343-363

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Spain
Britain
Measuring party organization
Multi-level organization
State-wide parties

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