Entrepreneurial Parties: A Basic Conceptual Framework

The paper offers a conceptual framework to investigate the phenomenon of entrepreneurial parties in the countries of East-Central Europe. The authors evaluate existing concepts related to increasing interdependence of party politics and the business sector, such as business-firm parties. These conce...

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Published inPolitologický časopis Vol. XXIV; no. 2; pp. 83 - 91
Main Authors Hloušek, Vít, Kopeček, Lubomír
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brno Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství 01.01.2017
Masaryk University Press
International Institute of Political Science, Masaryk University
Subjects
Concepts
Entrepreneurship
Interdependence
Political leadership
Political parties
Politics
Politics / Political Sciences
Social movements
Social Sciences
EastCentral Europe
party leadership
entrepreneurial parties
party organisation
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Summary:The paper offers a conceptual framework to investigate the phenomenon of entrepreneurial parties in the countries of East-Central Europe. The authors evaluate existing concepts related to increasing interdependence of party politics and the business sector, such as business-firm parties. These concepts are typically much too bound to a particular example of historically emerging entrepreneurial party and therefore the paper offers a more general concept of entrepreneurial party. The concept is based on five basic features: (1) the central role of the leader and his private initiative, (2) the party as a personal vehicle, (3) the crucial formative influence of a leader over the political project. Two other features are related to the 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) a parliamentary split or emergence of a new faction.
ISSN:1211-3247
1805-9503
DOI:10.5817/pc2017-2-83