Party organizational change : formal distribution of power between national and regional levels in Italian political parties (1991-2012)
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2035-6609; 1972-7623
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Partecipazione e conflitto, 2015, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 167-189
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CALOSSI, Enrico, PIZZIMENTI, Eugenio, Party organizational change : formal distribution of power between national and regional levels in Italian political parties (1991-2012), Partecipazione e conflitto, 2015, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 167-189 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/35339
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In the last 20 years an increasing number of scholars have centred their attention on the relationships between party national structures and party sub-national branches. A relevant part of the specialized literature has interpreted party change as the by-product of the denationalization of party politics. The aim of this contribution is to investigate to what extent eight relevant Italian parties have followed patterns of organizational change, after the reforms of the municipal, provincial and regional election systems; and the process of devolution of administrative powers begun during the Nineties. By focusing on two analytical dimensions (the level of involvement and the level of autonomy of party regional units), we analyse diachronically continuity and change in party formal organization, through an in-depth analysis of the statutes adopted from 1992 to 2012.