Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

Conference Document 

Intra-Party Democracy and its Discontents: Democratization in a Volatile Political Context

Year of Publication: 2007
Jeroen Mimpen
NIMD

This paper delves into the challenges of intra-party democratization in volatile political contexts. It elaborates on the concept of intra-party democracy and discusses five main challenges related to the legal framework, party funding, party unity, primaries and floor-crossing.