CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Sedlakova, Maria |
|---|---|
| Title | THE ROLE OF IDEOLOGY IN BOUNDARY MAINTENANCE OF EUROPARTIES |
| Summary | The paper examines the role of party ideology in boundary maintenance of thirteen Europarties. The focus of the analysis is on the relationship between the Europarties and their national member parties, especially on the conditions that national parties have to fulfill in order to be accepted to the Europarty and what they have to do once they are accepted and function within the Europarty. Based on the qualitative content analysis of the party statutes, internal rules and regulations, the paper argues that ideology influences organizational structure of the Europarties (size of the party, party staff, party finance, decision-making within the party) and thus also how Europarty treats its applicants and members and whether and to what extent Europarty applies control mechanism such as disciplinary measures. First part of the analytical chapter describes party organizations at the European level and identifies factors that influence how selective or inclusive Europarties are. Second part focuses on the two cases studies: one when disciplinary measures were applied (suspension of Slovak party SMER-SD in 2006 from the Party of European Socialists) and one where disciplinary measures were not applied (Hungarian party Fidesz, 2012 and the European People’s Party). |
| Supervisor | Enyedi, Zsolt |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/sedlakova_maria.pdf |
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