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Legislative party institutionalization in New Democracies: The case of Poland

Kistner, Natalie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1179943866

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2007, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Political Science.
Legislative parties are largely absent from discussions of party institutionalization in the extant literature; yet the ability of legislative political parties to become institutionalized directly affects the success of newly established democracies by fostering governmental performance and stability and ensuring greater representation and accountability. Drawing upon the literature on organizational culture, I develop a theory that argues legislative parties institutionalize when party leaders create, and legislators subsequently adopt, party culture, or the rules and norms guiding a party’s behavior. I employ a multi-methodological approach to test the theory, combining an in-depth examination of legislative parties in Poland with a comparative study of new democracies in East Central Europe. First, based on in-depth interviews, I find that Poland’s legislative party leaders have taken steps to establish party culture. Second, utilizing data from two surveys of parliamentarians and an original dataset of roll call votes, I conclude that legislators themselves have by and large adopted this culture. Lastly, I analyze existing studies of parties in the Czech Republic and Hungary for evidence of legislative party institutionalization and find that Poland’s legislative parties are more institutionalized than those of either the Czech Republic or Hungary. This finding clearly challenges the conventional wisdom, which portrays Poland’s parties as weak and poorly institutionalized.
Goldie Shabad (Advisor)
248 p.
Political Science, General
party institutionalization; legislatures; Poland

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  • Kistner, N. (2007). Legislative party institutionalization in New Democracies: The case of Poland [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1179943866

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kistner, Natalie. Legislative party institutionalization in New Democracies: The case of Poland. 2007. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1179943866.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kistner, Natalie. "Legislative party institutionalization in New Democracies: The case of Poland." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1179943866

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