1st Edition

Party Members and Their Importance in Non-EU Countries A Comparative Analysis

Edited By Sergiu Gherghina, Alexandra Iancu, Sorina Soare Copyright 2018
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

Although party membership has been extensively analysed in the EU Members States from Western and Eastern Europe, there is a gap in systematic data collection and analyses for the other countries in the Balkans and post-Soviet region. This book provides new and innovative insights in the area of party membership research to analyse the evolution of membership organizations in political parties... Read more

1. Party Membership and its Conceptualization in Democratizing European Countries: An Introduction [Sergiu Gherghina, Alexandra Iancu and Sorina Soare]

2. Incentives and Practices of Mass-Party Membership in Albania [Anjeza Xhaferaj]

3. Stable and State Subsidized Party Membership in Bosnia and Herzegovina [Jasmin Hasic and Mahir Sijamija]

4. Weak Membership and Personal Networks in Georgia [Nanuli Silagadze]

5. Membership Recruitment and Propaganda in Macedonia [Dane Taleski, Viktor Dimovski and Muhamed Halili]

6. Volatile and Election-based Party Membership in the Republic of Moldova [Igor Bucataru and Valeriu Mosneaga]

7. Oligarchic Party Structures and Membership in Montenegro [Zlatko Vujovic]

8. Strong Leaders, Passive Members, and State-Dependency in Serbia [DuĊĦan Spasojevic and Zoran Stojiljkovic]

9. The Hidden Game of Party Membership in Ukraine [Agnieszka K. Cianciara and Kamila Zacharuk]

Biography

Sergiu Gherghina is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, UK.

Alexandra Iancu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest, Romania.

Sorina Soare is a Lecturer of Comparative Politics at the University of Florence, Italy.