Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political Parties

Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political Parties

Europarties are regarded as multi-level organizations, like parties operating in federal or devolved states. Examined is whether they can even be treated as political parties <em>sensu stricto</em> and whether the concepts used to test the relations between the national and regional part...

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Main Author: Beata Kosowska-Gąstoł
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika 2017-04-01
Series:Historia i Polityka
Subjects:
europarties
multi-level approach
multi-level organization
vertical integration
Online Access:https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/HiP/article/view/12916
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spelling doaj-4ede5851edc74d9997004b37ae905b8b2020-12-05T09:34:39ZengWydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja KopernikaHistoria i Polityka1899-51602391-76522017-04-01020 (27)10.12775/HiP.2017.00911341Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political PartiesBeata Kosowska-Gąstoł0Jagiellonian University, KrakówEuroparties are regarded as multi-level organizations, like parties operating in federal or devolved states. Examined is whether they can even be treated as political parties <em>sensu stricto</em> and whether the concepts used to test the relations between the national and regional party structures (vertical integration, influence) could be used to study relationships between the national and European structures. It was indicated that Europarties can be considered both as the additional arenas of national parties’ activity and independent political actors consisted of national parties (multi-level parties). The second perspective was used to research 13 existing Europarties. In result, the similarities between the PES and PEL, but differences between the EPP and PES in term of vertical integration and influence were shown. Hence, in the article was proven that there is no one model of relations between the national and European party structures and the parties differ from each other as far as their internal structures are concerned.https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/HiP/article/view/12916europartiesmulti-level approachmulti-level organizationvertical integration
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Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political Parties
Historia i Polityka
europarties
multi-level approach
multi-level organization
vertical integration
author_facet Beata Kosowska-Gąstoł
author_sort Beata Kosowska-Gąstoł
title Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political Parties
title_short Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political Parties
title_full Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political Parties
title_fullStr Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political Parties
title_full_unstemmed Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political Parties
title_sort are the europarties real political parties? national parties’ involvement in multi-level structures of european political parties
publisher Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
series Historia i Polityka
issn 1899-5160
2391-7652
publishDate 2017-04-01
description Europarties are regarded as multi-level organizations, like parties operating in federal or devolved states. Examined is whether they can even be treated as political parties <em>sensu stricto</em> and whether the concepts used to test the relations between the national and regional party structures (vertical integration, influence) could be used to study relationships between the national and European structures. It was indicated that Europarties can be considered both as the additional arenas of national parties’ activity and independent political actors consisted of national parties (multi-level parties). The second perspective was used to research 13 existing Europarties. In result, the similarities between the PES and PEL, but differences between the EPP and PES in term of vertical integration and influence were shown. Hence, in the article was proven that there is no one model of relations between the national and European party structures and the parties differ from each other as far as their internal structures are concerned.
topic europarties
multi-level approach
multi-level organization
vertical integration
url https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/HiP/article/view/12916
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