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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.
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