The Rise of Entrepreneurial Parties in European Politics

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-41915-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

Political parties run by entrepreneurs as a means to their own end are a recent phenomenon found in many countries, and their electoral influence has never been greater. This book offers a thorough comparative analysis of such ‘business-firm’ and sometimes oddly memberless parties in Western and East-Central Europe, assessing the considerable corpus of literature on the growing band of political entrepreneurs. The book clearly separates such party enterprises from other, more traditional, political platforms as it contributes to our understanding of the potential of entrepreneurial parties. The authors offer a unique typology based on two characteristics: whether the party receives private financial, media or other investment; and the nature of its membership and territorial structure. Famous examples of entrepreneurial parties, including Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom, alongside their lesser-known counterparts, servein this book as valuable material for conceptual innovation and the investigation into why certain entrepreneurial party types succeed or fail.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hlou¿ek, Vít

Vodová, Petra

Kopecek, Lubomír

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Parlament
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Political entrepreneurs and their parties: conceptual and typological issues.- Chapter 3 The party as a spin-off from a business empire.- Chapter 4 Two tycoons and their one-man shows.- Chapter 5 Entrepreneurial parties without firms and without members.- Chapter 6 How to build a party organisation without financial capital.- Chapter 7 Collapse or survival: the organisational resilience of entrepreneurial parties.

Über Autor(innen)

Vít Hloušek is Professor of European Politics at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Lubomír Kopecek is Professor of Political Science at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Petra Vodová is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.