Organizing for Success: The Effect of Intra-Party Democracy on Local Level Party Presence.

• In Event: Dynamics of Subnational Elections

Brief Overview

This paper uses new data to show that parties with higher levels of intra-party democracy (IPD) are better able to interact with citizens. These findings suggest that IPD plays an important role in the outward facing activities of parties.

Authors

• Sarah J Lockwood, Columbia University

• Matthias Werner Kroenke, University of Cape Town