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Trigger or treat? The impact of intra-party factors on membership recruitment

par Sierens, Vivien Denis
Référence ECPR General Conference (12th: 22-25 August 2018: Hamburg)
Publication Non publié, 2018-08-23

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Most of the empirical literature on party membership has focused on the decline of national party membership figures across Europe (Mair and Van Biezen, 2001; Weldon, 2006; Van Biezen et al., 2012). However, little attention has been devoted to the agency of political parties in membershiprecruitment (Faucher, 2015). Qualitative comparative analysis is used to explore which combinations of structural and party agency factors account for membership growth in 13 parties in 7 Western European democracies (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and UK). Using data collected in the framework of the Political Party Database (PPDB), this paper identifies several combinations of structural and intra-party factors that are unnecessary but sufficient to explain membership growth. It shows that intra-party factors alone are not a “universal” trigger to increase membership levels.