Reform agendas, policy diffusion and the consequences of intra-party position-taking (C02)

该项目分析了党内政治如何影响政党要求和实施的改革。首先，我们试图开发和测试一个理论账户，以捕捉党内立场对公民对政党认知的影响。其次，从社会网络的角度，我们研究了国会议员如何形成网络，以便更有效地在议会中工作。第三，我们研究了党内政治对政党采取立场活动中的政策扩散的影响，以及成员参与政党政策制定是增强还是限制了竞争对手和外国政党的政策对焦点政党政策立场的影响。对于我们理解党内立场如何影响政党的改革，上述每一个方面都至关重要。

The project analyses how intra-party politics affects what reforms parties demand and implement. First, we seek to develop and test a theoretical account capturing the effect of intra-party position-taking on citizens’ perceptions of parties. Second, using a social network perspective, we study how MPs form networks to more effectively work in parliament. Third, we research the impact of intra-party politics on policy diffusion in parties’ position-taking activities and whether membership participation in the formulation of party policies enhances or limits the impact rival parties’ and foreign parties’ policies have on the focal party policy position. Each of these aspects is crucial to our understanding of how intra-party position-taking shapes reform-making by political parties.