Measuring Intra-Party Democracy : A Guide for the Content Analysis of Party Statutes with Examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania (Springerbriefs in Political Science) （2013）

von dem Berge, Benjamin/ Poguntke, Thomas/ Obert, Peter

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K（2013/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 65 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783642360329
• DDC分類 320

Full Description

This book presents an integrated approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy through deductive and standardized content analysis of party statutes. Following the two main criteria of intra-party democracy - inclusiveness and decentralization - three main categories of intra-party democracy are theoretically derived: members' rights, organizational structure and decision-making. On the basis of theoretical considerations further sub-categories and individual items are deduced from these main categories and put together into a comprehensive coding scheme. Furthermore, precise coding instructions are presented. Since it is the ultimate aim of this book to present an approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy for any party statute and to express this in numerical terms, the final step is the quantification of the coded data and the calculation of a numeric measure of intra-party democracy. A numeric value of intra-party democracy can be calculated for any statute of any political party. Furthermore, empirical examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania are presented. ​

Contents

Preface.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Deduction of the Coding Scheme.- 3 The Coding Scheme.- 4 The Coding Procedure.- 5 The Proof of the Pudding: Arriving at Numbers.- 6 Summary and Outlook.- Appendices.