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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PARTY ORGANIZATION: A CROSS‐NATIONAL, TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
WELLHOFER E. SPENCER
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1979.tb01276.x
Subject(s) - norwegian , function (biology) , index (typography) , production (economics) , series (stratigraphy) , time series , economics , microeconomics , computer science , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , evolutionary biology , machine learning , world wide web , biology
The effectiveness of party organization is modeled by a modified Cobb‐Douglas production function where inputs are characteristics of party organization and output is the popular vote of the party. Next, an index of organizational learning is introduced to compete with the input factors; organizational learning accounts for some increased output, particularly in the early periods of party development. The model is tested with time‐series data for the Argentine, British, Norwegian, and Swedish Socialist Labor parties.