Exploring party change: the professionalisation of the UK's three Green parties crossing the representation threshold
Exploring party change: the professionalisation of the UK's three Green parties crossing the representation threshold
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探索政党变革：英国三个绿党跨越代表门槛的专业化
DOI：
10.1080/09644016.2020.1817650
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
5.5
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Thompson L
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Thompson L
对政党的研究表明，当一个政党跨过代表门槛时，组织变革和专业化的动力明显，尽管这种变化发生的过程仍然研究不足。我们使用的案例研究，英国的三个绿色政党提供专业化，通过代表过程的重点检查。我们的研究发现，有明确的证据表明，由于获得了代表权，这三个政党都在一定程度上实现了专业化。通过评估与政党组织变革文献中的关键辩论有关的实证研究结果，我们表明，通过代表实现专业化并不一定需要整个政党的行为者做出深思熟虑的决定，它可以是基本上单向的，（尽管在这种情况下，绿党在立法机构中保持了相对稳定的存在）并由公共提供资金和工作人员的制度规则以及政党本身的起源形成。
Studies of political parties have evidenced a clear impetus for organisational change and professionalisation when a party crosses the representation threshold, though the process by which this change occurs remains under-researched. We use a case study of the UK’s three Green parties to provide a focused examination of the professionalisation-through-representation process. Our study finds clear evidence that all three parties have professionalised to an extent as a result of securing representation. By evaluating the empirical findings in relation to key debates within the party organisational change literature, we show that professionalisation-through-representation does not necessarily require deliberate decisions by actors across a party, it can be largely uni-directional (though in this case the Greens have maintained a relatively consistent presence in legislatures) and is shaped by institutional rules on the public provision of funding and staff as well as parties’ own origins.