Dealing with the facts of life: the management of intra-party factionalism in the Iberian radical left parties

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Autor(a) principal: Lourenço, Pedro
Data de Publicação: 2024
Outros Autores: Conceição, Tiago, Jalali, Carlos
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/40436
Resumo: Factionalism is an important element in parties' internal life, affecting their policies, strategies, electoral performance and even survival. Yet little is known about how parties manage factionalism. This study examines how radical left parties (RLPs) manage factionalism, drawing on a comparative case study of four RLPs – the Spanish Podemos and United Left (IU), and the Portuguese Left Bloc (BE) and Communist Party (PCP) – from 2010 to 2019. Drawing on original data collection, we find that parties adopt both formal and informal mechanisms to address factionalism. However, their approaches differ significantly. We identify two main approaches towards factionalism: a permissive approach, which allows internal pluralism, in the BE and IU; and a prohibitionist approach, which actively fights factionalism, in Podemos and the PCP, with competitive prohibitionism in the former and pre-emptive prohibitionism in the latter. These approaches strongly correlate with parties' origins and political orientation, but neither fully prevents intra-party conflict or splintering.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Dealing with the facts of life: the management of intra-party factionalism in the Iberian radical left parties
title Dealing with the facts of life: the management of intra-party factionalism in the Iberian radical left parties
spellingShingle Dealing with the facts of life: the management of intra-party factionalism in the Iberian radical left parties
Lourenço, Pedro
Radical left parties
Factionalism
Party organization
Party management
Intra-party politics
Far left
title_short Dealing with the facts of life: the management of intra-party factionalism in the Iberian radical left parties
title_full Dealing with the facts of life: the management of intra-party factionalism in the Iberian radical left parties
title_fullStr Dealing with the facts of life: the management of intra-party factionalism in the Iberian radical left parties
title_full_unstemmed Dealing with the facts of life: the management of intra-party factionalism in the Iberian radical left parties
title_sort Dealing with the facts of life: the management of intra-party factionalism in the Iberian radical left parties
author Lourenço, Pedro
author_facet Lourenço, Pedro
Conceição, Tiago
Jalali, Carlos
author_role author
author2 Conceição, Tiago
Jalali, Carlos
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Lourenço, Pedro
Conceição, Tiago
Jalali, Carlos
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Radical left parties
Factionalism
Party organization
Party management
Intra-party politics
Far left
topic Radical left parties
Factionalism
Party organization
Party management
Intra-party politics
Far left
description Factionalism is an important element in parties' internal life, affecting their policies, strategies, electoral performance and even survival. Yet little is known about how parties manage factionalism. This study examines how radical left parties (RLPs) manage factionalism, drawing on a comparative case study of four RLPs – the Spanish Podemos and United Left (IU), and the Portuguese Left Bloc (BE) and Communist Party (PCP) – from 2010 to 2019. Drawing on original data collection, we find that parties adopt both formal and informal mechanisms to address factionalism. However, their approaches differ significantly. We identify two main approaches towards factionalism: a permissive approach, which allows internal pluralism, in the BE and IU; and a prohibitionist approach, which actively fights factionalism, in Podemos and the PCP, with competitive prohibitionism in the former and pre-emptive prohibitionism in the latter. These approaches strongly correlate with parties' origins and political orientation, but neither fully prevents intra-party conflict or splintering.
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