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
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).
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).
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.