eprintid: 29131
rev_number: 12
eprint_status: archive
userid: 6
dir: disk0/00/02/91/31
datestamp: 2020-11-27 13:44:09
lastmod: 2021-02-02 13:08:21
status_changed: 2020-11-27 13:44:09
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Gauja, Anika
creators_name: Grömping, Max
title: The expanding party universe: Patterns of partisan engagement in Australia and the United Kingdom
subjects: ddc-320
divisions: i-180500
keywords: Australia, participation, representation, supporters, United Kingdom
note: 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.
abstract: 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.
date: 2020
publisher: Sage Publishing
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00029131
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068818822251
ppn_swb: 1746727845
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-291319
language: eng
bibsort: GAUJAANIKATHEEXPANDI2020
full_text_status: public
publication: Party Politics
volume: 26
number: 6
place_of_pub: London [u.a]
pagerange: 822-833
issn: 1354-0688 (Druck-Ausg.), 1460-3683 (Online-Ausg.)
edition: Zweitveröffentlichung
citation:   Gauja, Anika ; Grömping, Max  (2020) The expanding party universe: Patterns of partisan engagement in Australia and the United Kingdom.  Party Politics, 26 (6).  pp. 822-833.  ISSN 1354-0688 (Druck-Ausg.), 1460-3683 (Online-Ausg.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/29131/1/10.1177_1354068818822251.pdf