By Ingrid van Biezen
Ingrid van Biezen offers a complete comparative research of get together formation and organizational improvement in lately validated democracies. She makes a speciality of 4 democracies in Southern and East-Central Europe and addresses political events from a cross-regional point of view. that includes a wealth of latest details on get together association, this booklet presents a invaluable theoretical and empirical contribution to our realizing of political events in either outdated and new democracies.
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In Eastern Europe, the civic movements, which essentially embodied antiregime sentiments and presented themselves as an alternative against a delegitimized state, clearly illustrate these institutional rather than societal origins. Even if the direction of the unfolding events was not at all clear at the outset of the transition, it was evident that the institutional environment was in flux and that the status quo would not be maintained. What all actors shared, regardless of their particular points of view, was a primary concern for the speed and extent of liberalization of the non-democratic regime and the institutional framework of the successor regime.
Unlike parties representing the entrepreneurial classes, the working-class movement could not rely on financial contributions from wealthy individuals and had few other alternative resources to resort to than the dues paid by its members. Large numbers of members were therefore needed in order to compensate for the lack of alternative financial resources. Primarily for these two reasons, the creation of a mass party was, as Epstein (1980: 130) puts it, an ‘organizational necessity’. The concurrence of economic and political demands also made a significant contribution to a natural affinity between working-class parties The Path towards Democracy 23 and trade unions, because of their common roots as the ‘Siamese twins’ of the labour movement (Padgett and Paterson, 1991: 177).
While in the older liberal democracies state funding of political parties was introduced only long after the institutionalization of the party system and the consolidation of the democratic regime, the transition to democracy in the third wave was generally accompanied by, and political parties emerged within, a context of extensive state funding. In new democracies, state subventions therefore have had an even larger impact on the development of party organizations than in the established democracies in the West.
