CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Veljanov, Zdravko |
|---|---|
| Title | Internal Organization of Europarties: Designing a Comparative Framework |
| Summary | The thesis looks at Europarty development and develops a framework for their comparison, which is based on the level of institutionalization and organizational setup. It explores key features of institutional organization of Europarties, particularly through their functional and organizational evolution. It combines IR and CP approaches and on the basis of party statutes content analysis and interviews with Europarties’ elites (i) develops indicators to measure institutionalization, and (ii) presents ideal organizational framework for Europarties comparison. The thesis shows that Europarties share the same internal organs as a result of the institutional environment in which they evolved. It also shows increased levels of institutionalization of the two biggest Europarties, EPP and PES, and organizational convergence. The first part of the thesis provides a detailed descriptive analysis of institutionalization and party organization at European level. The analytical section is divided into two parts. The first part addresses Europarties primary documents, whilst the second part focuses on two cases EPP and PES, where the newly developed comparative framework is tested. |
| Supervisor | Enyedi, Zsolt |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/veljanov_zdravko.pdf |
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