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Entrepreneurial Parties : A Basic Conceptual Framework

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HLOUŠEK Vít KOPEČEK Lubomír

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Politologický časopis
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web http://www.politologickycasopis.cz/cz/archiv/2017/2/
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2017-2-83
Field Political sciences
Keywords Entrepreneurial Parties; East-Central Europe; Party Organisation; Party Leadership
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Description The paper offers a conceptual framework to investigate phenomenon of entrepreneurial parties in the countries of East-Central Europe. The authors evaluate existing concepts related to increasing interdependence of the party politics and the business sector and offer the minimal conceptualisation of an entrepreneurial party. The minimal conceptualisation is based on the five basic features: (1) the central role of the leader and his private initiative, party as a (2) personal vehicle, (3) crucial formative influence of leader over the political project. Two other features are related to social and institutional un-rootedness of the entrepreneurial party which is neither a product of (4) a promoter/sponsor organisation or social movement, nor it is an outcome of (5) parliamentary split or emergence of a new faction.
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