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Measuring Intra-Party Democracy [electronic resource] : A Guide for the Content Analysis of Party Statutes with Examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania / by Benjamin von dem Berge, Thomas Poguntke, Peter Obert, Diana Tipei.

By: von dem Berge, Benjamin [author.].
Contributor(s): Poguntke, Thomas [author.] | Obert, Peter [author.] | Tipei, Diana [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SpringerBriefs in Political Science: Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013Description: IX, 65 p. 5 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783642360336.Subject(s): Social sciences | Social Sciences | Comparative PoliticsDDC classification: 320 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Deduction of the Coding Scheme -- 3 The Coding Scheme -- 4 The Coding Procedure -- 5 The Proof of the Pudding: Arriving at Numbers -- 6 Summary and Outlook -- Appendices.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book presents an integrated approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy through deductive and standardized content analysis of party statutes. Following the two main criteria of intra-party democracy – inclusiveness and decentralization – three main categories of intra-party democracy are theoretically derived: members’ rights, organizational structure and decision-making. On the basis of theoretical considerations further sub-categories and individual items are deduced from these main categories and put together into a comprehensive coding scheme. Furthermore, precise coding instructions are presented. Since it is the ultimate aim of this book to present an approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy for any party statute and to express this in numerical terms, the final step is the quantification of the coded data and the calculation of a numeric measure of intra-party democracy. A numeric value of intra-party democracy can be calculated for any statute of any political party. Furthermore, empirical examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania are presented.
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Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Deduction of the Coding Scheme -- 3 The Coding Scheme -- 4 The Coding Procedure -- 5 The Proof of the Pudding: Arriving at Numbers -- 6 Summary and Outlook -- Appendices.

This book presents an integrated approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy through deductive and standardized content analysis of party statutes. Following the two main criteria of intra-party democracy – inclusiveness and decentralization – three main categories of intra-party democracy are theoretically derived: members’ rights, organizational structure and decision-making. On the basis of theoretical considerations further sub-categories and individual items are deduced from these main categories and put together into a comprehensive coding scheme. Furthermore, precise coding instructions are presented. Since it is the ultimate aim of this book to present an approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy for any party statute and to express this in numerical terms, the final step is the quantification of the coded data and the calculation of a numeric measure of intra-party democracy. A numeric value of intra-party democracy can be calculated for any statute of any political party. Furthermore, empirical examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania are presented.

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