VOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party

This article examines the organisation of VOX, a new radical right party in Spain. It shows that the party has taken early and uneven steps to build a mass organisation and initially opted for open membership recruitment with participatory organisational elements. Also, the party’s rapid growth and...

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Autores principales:	Astrid Barrio, Sonia Alonso Sáenz de Oger, Bonnie N. Field
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Publicado:	Cogitatio 2021
Materias:	party organisation political parties radical right spain vox Political science (General) JA1-92
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:14db7f228e9f445aaaacd32acf484b6b2021-11-24T11:48:17ZVOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party2183-246310.17645/pag.v9i4.4396https://doaj.org/article/14db7f228e9f445aaaacd32acf484b6b2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/4396https://doaj.org/toc/2183-2463This article examines the organisation of VOX, a new radical right party in Spain. It shows that the party has taken early and uneven steps to build a mass organisation and initially opted for open membership recruitment with participatory organisational elements. Also, the party’s rapid growth and quick entrance into political institutions at different state levels led the party leadership to establish more centralised control and limit members’ prerogatives, though recruitment continued. Centralisation in part responds to organisational needs given the party’s quickly acquired political relevance, but also to the desire of the central party leadership to forestall the articulation of territorial interests, or prevent them from escaping their control. Today, VOX exhibits elements of mass party organisation and highly centralised decision-making in the hands of national party leaders.Astrid BarrioSonia Alonso Sáenz de OgerBonnie N. FieldCogitatioarticleparty organisationpolitical partiesradical rightspainvoxPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPolitics and Governance, Vol 9, Iss 4, Pp 240-251 (2021)
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description	This article examines the organisation of VOX, a new radical right party in Spain. It shows that the party has taken early and uneven steps to build a mass organisation and initially opted for open membership recruitment with participatory organisational elements. Also, the party’s rapid growth and quick entrance into political institutions at different state levels led the party leadership to establish more centralised control and limit members’ prerogatives, though recruitment continued. Centralisation in part responds to organisational needs given the party’s quickly acquired political relevance, but also to the desire of the central party leadership to forestall the articulation of territorial interests, or prevent them from escaping their control. Today, VOX exhibits elements of mass party organisation and highly centralised decision-making in the hands of national party leaders.
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title	VOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party
title_short	VOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party
title_full	VOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party
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VOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party

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