… and establish themselves in sub-state-level party systems, then it is plausible that … -state-level
issues and evaluations of sub-state party performance. The amount at stake'at each level of …

… restructuring its party-state organisation. This project applies a local perspective to study state
… introduction of the cadre responsibility system at the local level. It is suggested that part of …

… multi-level party politics–I will try to bring together the debate on the role of parties in federal
… reconfiguration of state authority and new institutional perspectives on party change and …

… State-level party leaderships have a strong interest in candidate selection for statewide … of
the party's state-level parliamentary delegation, which has important implications if the party is …

… coalition formation on the local level. In addition to … local institutional setting and the constraints
on local coalition politics emerging from patterns of party competition at the superior level …

… This article presents an alternative way to present the data on multi-level party organization.
Whereas there is a number of state decentralization and regionalization indices (Schakel, …

… – the Greens, SPD and Free Democrats – sought to counter the CSU’s strategy by arguing
that a regionalised Europe should mean strengthening the local level against Bavarian state …

… of the party-state at the local level, … on local states contributed much to our understanding
of local government responses to decentralization, but had less to say about how the local state …

… out to imply less capture of the dominant party at the local level. The essential reason is that
the dominant party A is less likely to win at the local level, reducing the incentive of the lobby …

… the local level. Perhaps counterintuitively, democracy deepened most in the context of weakly
institutionalized opposition parties … , party-dominated structures. Strongly institu tionalized …