Descripción del proyecto
¿Cuándo y cómo pueden ser buenos para el partido los conflictos entre facciones?
Existen facciones en prácticamente todos los partidos políticos. Se trata de agrupaciones dentro de un partido cuya ideología difiere de la del resto del partido. Los investigadores del proyecto INTRAPARTY, financiado con fondos europeos, son los primeros en estudiar las facciones y sus efectos en el éxito electoral de los partidos políticos en Europa. El proyecto abrirá nuevas vías combinando enfoques exploratorios y la puesta a prueba de teorías de la investigación en política de partidos, grupos de interés y ciencias sociales computacionales. Su labor contribuirá a una comprensión más profunda de cómo es la vida dentro de un partido político y sus consecuencias electorales.
Objetivo
Political parties and voters form important relationships in a democracy. The conventional wisdom is that divided parties lose elections. Yet the empirical evidence for this is ad hoc, and there are good reasons to suspect that it is, at best, a conditional wisdom. Firstly, the factional groups that divide parties vary in many different ways, even if the conventional wisdom treats them all the same. Secondly, since factions have somewhat different preferences than the rest of the party, they could also be useful in representing additional segments of society. However, there is currently no systematic analysis of the impact of factions – whether negative or positive – on a party’s electoral result.
INTRAPARTY is a comparative study of factions and their effects on political parties’ electoral success in Europe. By answering the overall research question of When and how can factions have positive effects on political parties’ electoral performance?, INTRAPARTY launches a new scientific inquiry that challenges the conventional wisdom and seeks to explain the positive effects of factions on parties’ electoral performance. It provides unprecedented theoretical and empirical insights into the true role of factions in representative democracies.
The project elaborates an original theory explaining factional effects on parties’ electoral performance that accounts for the inherent balancing factions face between inducing pressure but not harm on their party. Factions constitute a source of representation and reputation to voters that was previously neglected. Empirically, the project breaks new ground by combining theory-testing and exploratory approaches from research in party politics, interest group, and computational social sciences. By constructing an original comparative dataset on factions and parties over time and designing creative survey experiments to test voters’ reactions, the project tests the effects of factions on parties’ electoral success in Europe.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitución de acogida
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