TY - CHAP

T1 - The Degree, Type and Quality of Participation

T2 - Dimensions in Participation

AU - Kosiara-Pedersen, Karina

AU - Heidar, Knut

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - The general trend across Western Europe is that membership figures decline even though trends vary both within and across countries. In light of these general trends, parties are changing the ways in which they enable affiliation by opening up for other types of party affiliation such as B-members, Facebook supporters etc. However, the variation in partisan participation and hence in how parties provide participatory linkage is not only detectable outside traditional party membership but also within. Hence, the question of analysis is what characterizes parties’ participatory linkage among all types of party affiliates, and how may this be explained? Parties’ participatory linkage is assessed across five time periods in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, hence enabling a comparison between countries within similar political systems with parties with variation in size, age, ideology, party culture etc. The results indicate that the pattern of participation varies among party members; this allows for a more thorough assessment of how party members and other types of affiliates through their participation contribute to their parties and hence to the role parties play within representative democracy.

AB - The general trend across Western Europe is that membership figures decline even though trends vary both within and across countries. In light of these general trends, parties are changing the ways in which they enable affiliation by opening up for other types of party affiliation such as B-members, Facebook supporters etc. However, the variation in partisan participation and hence in how parties provide participatory linkage is not only detectable outside traditional party membership but also within. Hence, the question of analysis is what characterizes parties’ participatory linkage among all types of party affiliates, and how may this be explained? Parties’ participatory linkage is assessed across five time periods in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, hence enabling a comparison between countries within similar political systems with parties with variation in size, age, ideology, party culture etc. The results indicate that the pattern of participation varies among party members; this allows for a more thorough assessment of how party members and other types of affiliates through their participation contribute to their parties and hence to the role parties play within representative democracy.

UR - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781785523267/Nordic-Party-Members-Linkages-in-Troubled-Times

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781785523250

SP - 137

EP - 156

BT - Nordic Party Members

A2 - Demker, Marie

A2 - Heidar, Knut

A2 - Kosiara-Pedersen, Karina

PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

CY - London

ER -