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This article assesses long-term effects of the introduction of leading candidates on the institutionalization of the European Green Party. Our analysis combines social media and manifesto data with qualitative interviews and a media analysis. Strong election results in 2019 as well as an increasing perception as a mainstream-actor point to an objectively and externally institutionalized party. However, in the internal dimension the influence of the candidates in conjunction with programmatic disparities undermine the status of a routinized and influential Europarty.
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This chapter is part of a larger project, which seeks to comprehensively examine the Europarties institutionalization process, where we employ multiple data sources like surveys, interviews, primary party documents and data collected from party websites and Twitter.
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Switek, N., Weissenbach, K. (2020). An Ever-Closer Party? The Institutionalization of the European Green Party After the 2019 European Election. In: Kaeding, M., Müller, M., Schmälter, J. (eds) Die Europawahl 2019. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29277-5_6
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