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Party Power: Approaches in a Field of Unfilled Classics *
Author(s) -
Heidar Knut
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
scandinavian political studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9477
pISSN - 0080-6757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9477.1984.tb00288.x
Subject(s) - elite , democracy , power (physics) , politics , political science , field (mathematics) , political economy , linkage (software) , distribution (mathematics) , empirical research , public administration , sociology , law , epistemology , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , gene , mathematics , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , philosophy
Much current research into the working of liberal democracy tends to emphasise and concentrate on the corporate channel of influence. The linkage to centres of power provided by political parties has not received sufficient attention. There is a need for more research into the operation of parties as linkages between grass root activists and national elite politics. Studying party democracy is to study internal distribution of power, and the article turns to the debate on community power studies for guidelines on how to approach empirical research on intra‐party democracy.