TY - BOOK ID - 8360739 TI - Measuring intra-party democracy : a guide for the content analysis of party statutes with examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania PY - 2013 SN - 3642360327 3642360335 PB - Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Political party rules KW - Political Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Political Science Theory KW - Research KW - Political party rules. KW - Democracy KW - Self-government KW - Party rules, Political KW - Political parties KW - Rules, Political party KW - Political science. KW - Comparative politics. KW - Political Science and International Relations. KW - Comparative Politics. KW - Comparative political systems KW - Comparative politics KW - Government, Comparative KW - Political systems, Comparative KW - Political science KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8360739 AB - This book presents an integrated approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy through deductive and standardized content analysis of party statutes. Following the two main criteria of intra-party democracy – inclusiveness and decentralization – three main categories of intra-party democracy are theoretically derived: members’ rights, organizational structure and decision-making. On the basis of theoretical considerations further sub-categories and individual items are deduced from these main categories and put together into a comprehensive coding scheme. Furthermore, precise coding instructions are presented. Since it is the ultimate aim of this book to present an approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy for any party statute and to express this in numerical terms, the final step is the quantification of the coded data and the calculation of a numeric measure of intra-party democracy. A numeric value of intra-party democracy can be calculated for any statute of any political party. Furthermore, empirical examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania are presented. ER -