Multi-Level Party Organizations

Abstract

How do parties organize in multi-level settings? In this chapter, I will look at the ‘vertical map of organizational power’ within parties (Panebianco 1988). Vertical power ratios can be understood as the balance between party unity and territorial diversity. We may expect significant variation between parties and between countries here. As developed in Chapter 5, we will study party structures, party resources, party activities and party elite recruitment. In analysing these dimensions over time, we will be able to see how parties have adapted to the overall growth of territorial asymmetries in the structures of competition (see Chapter 6). I will focus on the main statewide parties in each of the five selected countries (for organizational details, see Appendix III, available at www.klaus-detterbeck.de).