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A decline of linkage? Intra-party participation in Norway, 1991–2000
Knut Heidar,Jo Saglie +1 more
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In this paper, the authors look beyond membership figures and ask whether membership decline should be interpreted to mean that the activities and motivation of the remaining members are changing, and find that active and passive members seem to have disappeared at about the same rate.Abstract:
. The decline in party membership in Western Europe is generally taken as an indicator of party transformation. This article looks beyond membership figures and asks whether membership decline should be interpreted to mean that the activities and motivation of the remaining members are changing. Hypotheses on changes in party activism and motivation for party membership are tested with data from the 1991 and 2000 Norwegian party member surveys. Rather than uncovering evidence of change, most analyses point to a remarkable level of stability. Active and passive members seem to have disappeared at about the same rate. The general diagnosis of party decline is neither improved nor aggravated, but the analysis casts doubt on propositions about the transformation of the grassroots organisation. The Internet is used by party office-holders and the young, but the grassroots rarely use the new technology for political purposes. The character of the representative and participatory linkages provided by parties has, however, changed as a consequence of a shrinking party membership.read more
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Declining memberships, changing members? European political party members in a new era
Susan E. Scarrow,Burcu Gezgor +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the longitudinal change in party membership and found that membership in established political parties has been shrinking, but at the same time members of some parties have received increased powers to help select candidates, leaders and party policies.
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Predestined Parties?: Organizational Change in Norwegian Political Parties
Knut Heidar,Jo Saglie +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse changes and debates about changes in the relationship between Norwegian political parties and their members and ask whether parties develop from mass parties to war-like ones.
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The construction of party membership
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a tripartite framework for understanding party membership as a constructed concept: from the perspective of the state, the individual and the political party, and analyze the development of supporters' networks and the extension of participatory opportunities to non-members.
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Norwegian Parties and Web 2.0
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of Web 2.0 on Norwegian political parties' adaption to Web 1.0 before and during the long campaign for the local elections in September 2007.
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Does the ‘Monitorial Citizen’ Exist? An Empirical Investigation into the Occurrence of Postmodern Forms of Citizenship in the Nordic Countries
Marc Hooghe,Yves Dejaeghere +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether this type of citizenship actually occurs in Scandinavia, and they found that this form of citizenship is present in the Nordic countries, but the characteristics of this group do not fit the theoretical expectations.
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