1st Edition

Leaders, Factions and the Game of Intra-Party Politics

By Andrea Ceron Copyright 2019
228 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The book provides a comprehensive view on the internal life of parties and investigates the dynamics of intra-party politics in different party environments to explain in which circumstances the party leader is more or less bound by the wills of party factions. Analyzing almost 500 intra-party documents from Italy, Germany and France, it presents a theory of intra-party politics that... Read more

1. The Game of Intra-Party Politics

2. Factional Preferences in Italy, France and Germany

3. The Determinants of Factionalism

4. Bounded Oligarchy: Leaders, Factions and the Selection of Party Platform

5. Portfolio Allocation among Party Factions

6. The Politics of Fission: Party Splits in Italy, France and Germany

7. Intra-Party Conflict and the Survival of Party Leaders

8. Conclusion

Biography

Andrea Ceron is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy.