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Conceptualising and Measuring Leadership Autonomy in Contemporary Party Organisations
Publication . Lisi, Marco; Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI); Departamento de Estudos Políticos (DEPo); Wiley-Blackwell
At a time when party politics is becoming increasingly personalised, conventional wisdom argues that the party leaders’ power in organisations is on the rise. However, scholarship has not yet provided a thorough and systematic analysis of the role of party leaders that offers theoretical and empirical specification. The aim of this article is to provide an analytical framework for the study of party leadership by examining the concept of leadership autonomy and its components. This new conceptualisation is then applied to a number of different parties across Western Europe, showing how leadership autonomy varies across countries and different party organisations. The conclusion sets out the implications for party change and highlights the importance of placing the leaders’ role at the centre of the empirical analysis of political parties.
Leadership overlap and party-group linkages
Publication . Lisi, Marco; Loureiro, João; Dias, António; Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI); Departamento de Estudos Políticos (DEPo); scielopt
Most studies on the interaction between political parties and interest groups rely on organizational or ideological/programmatic linkages. However, leadership overlap can also be a relevant dimension not only because of the increasing importance of informal relations between the two types of political actors but also given the mutual benefits these ties have in terms of decision-making processes. Drawing on an original dataset of party and interest group elite networks, this study examines party-group connections by relying on the profile of leadership in Portugal and investigates whether the crisis has affected the links between these actors. The findings indicate that leadership overlap is rather weak and that it mostly concerns trade unions and left-wing parties. Finally, these linkages demonstrate substantial stability over time, suggesting the importance of ideological proximity.
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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3599-PPCDT
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PTDC/IVC-CPO/1864/2014