Political Party Database Project: How Parties Shape Democracy

政党数据库项目：政党如何塑造民主

• 批准号: ES/L016613/1
• 负责人: Paul Webb
• 金额: $ 13.43万
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL016613%2F1
• 关键词: Political; Party; Database; Project; How

In a period of economic crises and rapidly changing communication opportunities traditional political actors have faced increasing challenges to their legitimacy. Yet despite these changes, political parties remain key actors in parliamentary democracies. They channel political recruitment, structure political choices, and offer opportunities for meaningful political participation. Because of this, it is vital to understand how parties' structures and resources shape democratic life. Unfortunately, the comparative study of political parties as organizational actors has been held back by the lack of systematically-collected cross-national data, and by the lack of standard vocabulary for conceptualizing and testing the impact of party resources and structures. The Political Party Database Project aims to fill both gaps. Our multi-national research team is collecting data on 138 parties in 19 countries in order to conduct theory-driven tests of competing scholarly claims about the impact of party organizational variation. Our investigations include examination of the relationships between party resources and their links to society and between party rules and social representation. We are also assessing the impact of specific candidate-selection procedures on both descriptive representation and electoral success. This proposal requests funds to help us complete our analyses for publication, and to enable us to use our initial data as the first installment in a new public database on party organization. This regularly-updated database will be an on-going resource for students of politics as well as for reformers seeking to improve representation and increase political participation. The three Principal Investigators (respectively based in UK, USA and Germany) for this proposal will jointly coordinate team efforts to collect and update party data, to prepare manuscripts for publication, and to publicize findings and the new data resources to academic audiences, political practitioners and the media.

在经济危机和交流机会迅速变化的时期，传统政治行为者的合法性面临越来越多的挑战。然而，尽管发生了这些变化，政党仍然是议会民主的关键行为体。它们引导政治招募，构建政治选择，并提供有意义的政治参与机会。因此，了解政党的结构和资源如何影响民主生活至关重要。遗憾的是，由于缺乏系统收集的跨国数据，以及缺乏用于概念化和测试政党资源和结构影响的标准词汇，政党作为组织行为者的比较研究一直受到阻碍。政党数据库项目旨在填补这两个空白。我们的跨国研究团队正在收集19个国家的138个政党的数据，以便对有关政党组织变化影响的相互竞争的学术主张进行理论驱动的测试。我们的调查包括审查党的资源之间的关系，他们与社会的联系，党的规则和社会代表之间。我们还在评估具体的候选人甄选程序对描述性代表性和选举成功的影响。该提案要求资金帮助我们完成分析以供出版，并使我们能够使用我们的初始数据作为关于党组织的新公共数据库的第一部分。这个定期更新的数据库将成为政治学学生以及寻求改善代表性和增加政治参与的改革者的持续资源。三位主要研究者（分别位于英国、美国和德国）将共同协调团队工作，收集和更新政党数据，准备出版手稿，并向学术受众、政治从业者和媒体公布研究结果和新的数据资源。

项目成果

Structure, Time and Public Support: Assessing the Impact of Party Organization on Party Membership

结构、时间和公众支持：评估党组织对党员身份的影响

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Emilie Van Haute

Prompting Legislative Agreement and Loyalty: What Role for Intra-Party Democracy?

促进立法共识和忠诚：党内民主发挥什么作用？

• DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsx075
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Parliamentary Affairs
• 影响因子: 1.2
• 作者: Close C

Do Party Resources Affect Representation?

政党资源会影响代表权吗？

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Close, C

The consequences of membership incentives: Do greater political benefits attract different kinds of members?

会员激励的后果：更大的政治利益是否会吸引不同类型的会员？

• DOI: 10.1177/1354068818754603
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Party Politics
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Achury S

Feminizing political parties Women's party member organizations within European parliamentary parties

政党女性化 欧洲议会政党内的女性政党成员组织

• DOI: 10.1177/1354068816654320
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Party Politics
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Childs S