TY  - JOUR
CY  - London [u.a]
VL  - 26
KW  - Australia
KW  -  participation
KW  -  representation
KW  -  supporters
KW  -  United Kingdom
IS  - 6
A1  - Gauja, Anika
A1  - Grömping, Max
EP  - 833
N2  - Although membership is declining, parties continue to perform roles central to democratic governance in modern societies. Given this seeming paradox, we suggest that partisan identification, in complementing studies of formal membership, is a promising way of assessing the strength of parties? democratic linkage. Using data from an original survey of voters in Australia and the United Kingdom, we analyse the participatory and demographic profiles of party supporters. We show that there are significant differences between supporters and those not committed to any party, as well as between supporters based on the strength of their party identification, substantiating the idea that parties can be conceptualized as a series of concentric circles of increasing engagement but declining representativeness. Stronger supporters are more likely to engage with parties online, volunteer and donate, but are older, more likely to be male and less likely to be foreign-born. Our findings have important implications for democratic practice as parties seek to expand and rejuvenate their networks of affiliates.
AV  - public
TI  - The expanding party universe: Patterns of partisan engagement in Australia and the United Kingdom
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. *** This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
Y1  - 2020///
ID  - heidok29131
JF  - Party Politics
SP  - 822
SN  - 1354-0688 (Druck-Ausg.), 1460-3683 (Online-Ausg.)
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068818822251
PB  - Sage Publishing
ER  -