Entrepreneurial Parties : A Basic Conceptual Framework
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Politologický časopis |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | http://www.politologickycasopis.cz/cz/archiv/2017/2/ |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2017-2-83 |
| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | Entrepreneurial Parties; East-Central Europe; Party Organisation; Party Leadership |
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| Description | The paper offers a conceptual framework to investigate phenomenon of entrepreneurial parties in the countries of East-Central Europe. The authors evaluate existing concepts related to increasing interdependence of the party politics and the business sector and offer the minimal conceptualisation of an entrepreneurial party. The minimal conceptualisation is based on the five basic features: (1) the central role of the leader and his private initiative, party as a (2) personal vehicle, (3) crucial formative influence of leader over the political project. Two other features are related to social and institutional un-rootedness of the entrepreneurial party which is neither a product of (4) a promoter/sponsor organisation or social movement, nor it is an outcome of (5) parliamentary split or emergence of a new faction. |
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