Party Organizational Change: Formal Distribution of Power between National and Regional Levels in Italian Political Parties (1991-2012)


Abstract


In the last 20 years an increasing number of scholars have centred their attention on the relationships between party national structures and party sub-national branches. A relevant part of the specialized literature has interpreted party change as the by-product of the denationalization of party politics. The aim of this contribution is to investigate to what extent eight relevant Italian parties have followed patterns of organizational change, after the reforms of the municipal, provincial and regional election sys-tems; and the process of devolution of administrative powers begun during the Nineties. By focusing on two analytical dimensions (the level of involvement and the level of autonomy of party regional units), we analyse diachronically continuity and change in party formal organization, through an in-depth analysis of the statutes adopted from 1992 to 2012

DOI Code: 10.1285/i20356609v8i1p167

Keywords: Denationalization; Italian political parties; Organizational change; stratarchy

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