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种理论解释，以捕捉党内立场对公民对政党的看法的影响。其次，利用社会网络的视角，我们研究了国会议员如何形成网络以更有效地在议会中工作。第三，我们研究了党内政治对政党立场活动中政策扩散的影响，以及党员参与政党政策制定是增强还是限制了对手政党和外国政党的政策对焦点政党政策立场的影响。这些方面中的每一个都对我们理解党内立场的确立如何影响政党的改革决策至关重要。

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.