Measuring intra-party democracy : a guide for the content analysis of party statutes with examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania
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Measuring intra-party democracy : a guide for the content analysis of party statutes with examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania
（SpringerBriefs in political science）
Springer, c2013
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"Social sciences/political sciences"--Backcover
Bibliography: p. 63-65
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Description
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.
Table of 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.
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