The Rise and Success of a (not so new) Party: the N-VA in Flanders
This paper argues that, as other ‘new’ parties, at least part of the explanation for the N-VA's success lies in the history preceding its birth; agency of the new party itself is another part of the explanation. Therefore, this paper demonstrates that the N-VA is what Arter has called a successor party, i.e. a party that has managed to become a new entity built on the remnants of a now defunct party organisation. In order to do so, we look at three main aspects: the characteristics of the electorate, the content of the programme, and the structure of the party organisation. On these three acco... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | conferenceContribution |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
Schlagwörter: | Science politique générale / Partis politiques groupes de pression / Opinion publique partis groupes de pression / Institutions internes des états / Institutions politiques comparées / Systèmes fédéraux / political parties / Belgium |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27367930 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/144165 |
This paper argues that, as other ‘new’ parties, at least part of the explanation for the N-VA's success lies in the history preceding its birth; agency of the new party itself is another part of the explanation. Therefore, this paper demonstrates that the N-VA is what Arter has called a successor party, i.e. a party that has managed to become a new entity built on the remnants of a now defunct party organisation. In order to do so, we look at three main aspects: the characteristics of the electorate, the content of the programme, and the structure of the party organisation. On these three accounts, the N-VA can be regarded as a successor party that successfully built on an existing organisation yet managed to dissociate from its predecessor. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished