The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy provides a comprehensive
examination of both the concept and the practice of intra-party
democracy (IPD). Acknowledging that IPD is now widely viewed, among
both democratic practitioners and scholars, as a normative good,
this volume suggests that there is no single, or uniformly
preferred, form of IPD. Rather, each party's version of IPD results
from a series of choices they make relating to the organization and
division of power internally. These decisions reflect many
variables including a party's democratic ethos, its electoral
context, state regulation and whether or not it is in government.
Individual chapters examine the relationship between party models
and IPD, the decline in party membership and activism, the role of
the state in regulating party democracy, issues relating to gender
and party organization, norms of candidate and leadership
recruitment and selection, party policy development and party
finance. The analysis considers the principal issues that parties
(and the state) must consider relating to IPD in each area of party
activity, the range of options open to them, current trends in
terms of paths chosen, what these choices tell us about parties
and, most importantly, what the implications of these choices are.
In doing so, we offer a common language and set of questions
relating to IPD that enhance the ability for consistent evaluation
of the state of internal party democracy. Through thorough analysis
of associated costs and benefits, we also provide a framework to
assist with considerations of IPD reforms -- particularly in terms
of their scope, the range of options available and their
implications.
Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and
researchers of political science that deals with contemporary
government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are
characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong
methodological rigour. The series is published in association with
the European Consortium for Political Research. For more
information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The Comparative Politics series
is edited by Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics and
International Relations, University College Dublin, and Kenneth
Carty, Professor of Political Science, University of British
Columbia.
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