The Rise of Entrepreneurial Parties in European Politics

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-41918-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

Political parties run by entrepreneurs as a means to their own end are a recent phenomenon found in many countries, and their electoral influence has never been greater. This book offers a thorough comparative analysis of such ‘business-firm’ and sometimes oddly memberless parties in Western and East-Central Europe, assessing the considerable corpus of literature on the growing band of political entrepreneurs. The book clearly separates such party enterprises from other, more traditional, political platforms as it contributes to our understanding of the potential of entrepreneurial parties. The authors offer a unique typology based on two characteristics: whether the party receives private financial, media or other investment; and the nature of its membership and territorial structure. Famous examples of entrepreneurial parties, including Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom, alongside their lesser-known counterparts, serve in this book as valuable material for conceptual innovation and the investigation into why certain entrepreneurial party types succeed or fail.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hlou¿ek, Vít

Kope¿ek, Lubomír

Kopecek, Lubomír

Vodová, Petra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Parlament
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Political entrepreneurs and their parties: conceptual and typological issuesTypes of parties in the context of historical and social trendsConceptual differences, definition and concept of entrepreneurial partiesA typology of entrepreneurial partiesThe institutionalisation of entrepreneurial partiesResearch sources and instruments 
Chapter 3 The party as a spin-off from a business empireThe (in)famous pioneer: Berlusconi’s Forza Italia  ‘Down with the dinosaurs!’ or too private Public Affairs in CzechiaManage everything as a firm: Andrej Babiš’s ANO in CzechiaOn the wrong side of Lithuanian law: Viktor Uspaskich and his Labour PartyPalikot’s Movement: a one-off sensation involving a Polish political provocateur Similarities and differences
Chapter 4 Two tycoons and their one-man showsAustria’s Team Stronach: politics as a failed financial investmentThe Slovak performer Igor Matovic and his Ordinary People Similarities and differences
Chapter 5 Entrepreneurial parties without firms and without membersHow to build a successful project: Geert Wilders’ Party for FreedomA closed party failed project: Tomio Okamura’s Dawn of Direct Democracy Similarities and differences 
Chapter 6 How to build a party organisation without financial capitalThe Norwegian Progress Party: From a free-wheeling, indignant dog-kennel owner to a centralist leader Pawel Kukiz: a Polish punk-rock star’s campaign against political parties Tomio Okamura’s struggle on behalf of the Czech nation against immigrant ‘parasites’Similarities and differences
Chapter 7 Collapse or survival: the organisational resilience of entrepreneurial partiesRisks posed by political entrepreneurship to democratic politics

Über Autor(innen)

Vít Hloušek is Professor of European Politics at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Lubomír Kopecek is Professor of Political Science at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Petra Vodová is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.