Two faces of internal life of political parties in Western Balkans
The enhancement of internal party democracy and development of democratic organizational structures of political parties are burning issues in the consolidating democracies of Western Balkans. The degree of internal party democracy depends on: vertical power sharing; the role and the status of the i...
| Autor principal: | Siljanovska-Davkova, Gordana |
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| Tipo de documento: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | English |
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2017
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The enhancement of internal party democracy and development of democratic organizational structures
of political parties are burning issues in the consolidating democracies of Western Balkans. The
degree of internal party democracy depends on: vertical power sharing; the role and the status of the
individual member; the role of the leader and party leadership; way of election of public functionaries;
horizontal structures and the relation of the party to its supporters and civil society. I explore
both the obvious and the hidden reasons and obstacles to the development of a democratic party
life. Firstly, I shall analyse the legislation concerning party organisation and internal party democracy.
Then, I ll try to differentiate the model of party organisation through its three faces: the party on the
ground, the party in the central office and the party in public office2. At the end, I ll draw conclusions
and recommendations for changes needed for internal party democratisation. Internal party democracy
is like Janus with two faces: one that is authoritarian and oligarchic and another- poliarchic and
democratic. The first dominates over the second one. Worse, the oligarchic tendencies within internal
party life are regularly transferred to the institutions, infecting them with partitocrazia. |
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