Party Regulation as a Self-Legitimizing System

<span class="abs_content">The aim of this article is to contribute to a reflection on the endogenous nature of party regulation and on the ways in which law making can be used by political actors to foster a privileged legal environment. The article first provides a review of the lit...

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Autor principal:	Daniela Piccio
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Coordinamento SIBA 2015
Materias:	political parties party regulation institutional endogeneity functionalism self-interest political representation Political science (General) JA1-92
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b2048eb1371f485ab221b364b4ce31a92021-11-21T15:11:38ZParty Regulation as a Self-Legitimizing System1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v8i1p118https://doaj.org/article/b2048eb1371f485ab221b364b4ce31a92015-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/14786https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">The aim of this article is to contribute to a reflection on the endogenous nature of party regulation and on the ways in which law making can be used by political actors to foster a privileged legal environment. The article first provides a review of the literature about party regulation and its main approaches. Secondly, building on a comprehensive database of party regulation in Europe, it draws attention to the presence of functional definitions of political parties in party law and speculates as to why such non-prescriptive statements have been introduced. In the conclusions, it suggests that presenting themselves as ‘eufunctional’ performers, political parties have strengthened their legal status and (self-)legitimized their institutional centrality, ensuring their organizational survival within the system independently from their declining capacity as vehicles of political representation. Further lines of inquiry and cross-fertilization between disciplines are suggested and encouraged.</span><br />Daniela PiccioCoordinamento SIBAarticlepolitical partiesparty regulationinstitutional endogeneityfunctionalismself-interestpolitical representationPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 118-139 (2015)
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description	<span class="abs_content">The aim of this article is to contribute to a reflection on the endogenous nature of party regulation and on the ways in which law making can be used by political actors to foster a privileged legal environment. The article first provides a review of the literature about party regulation and its main approaches. Secondly, building on a comprehensive database of party regulation in Europe, it draws attention to the presence of functional definitions of political parties in party law and speculates as to why such non-prescriptive statements have been introduced. In the conclusions, it suggests that presenting themselves as ‘eufunctional’ performers, political parties have strengthened their legal status and (self-)legitimized their institutional centrality, ensuring their organizational survival within the system independently from their declining capacity as vehicles of political representation. Further lines of inquiry and cross-fertilization between disciplines are suggested and encouraged.</span><br />
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Party Regulation as a Self-Legitimizing System

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