TY  - BOOK
AU  - von dem Berge,Benjamin
AU  - Poguntke,Thomas
AU  - Obert,Peter
AU  - Tipei,Diana
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Measuring Intra-Party Democracy: A Guide for the Content Analysis of Party Statutes with Examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania 
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Political Science,
SN  - 9783642360336
AV  - JA71-80 
U1  - 320 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Political science
KW  - Comparative politics
KW  - Political Science and International Relations
KW  - Comparative Politics
N1  - Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Deduction of the Coding Scheme -- 3 The Coding Scheme -- 4 The Coding Procedure -- 5 The Proof of the Pudding: Arriving at Numbers -- 6 Summary and Outlook -- Appendices
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36033-6
ER  -