Power, S. and Dommett, K. orcid.org/0000-0003-0624-6610 (2020) From multi-speed to multi-stream? Recognising the motivations, processes and triggers behind party membership. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 22 (3). pp. 505-522. ISSN 1369-1481
Abstract
A key question facing scholars of party politics is the journey engaged individuals take to becoming party members. We argue that the existing literature largely outlines one aspect – motivation. In this article, we present an alternative position: that a membership journey is only complete when a motivation, process and trigger are present. We outline this utilising a case study of the Green Party of England and Wales including previously confidential internal party documents, membership figures, elite interviews, focus group research and participant observation to provide a different means to understand membership fluctuations. We present these findings as an exploratory and inductive reinterpretation of existing debates. However, we also suggest that the findings are of interest not just in the case of the Green Party, nor the United Kingdom, but to all those who study party membership.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | activism; British politics; Green Party; multi-stream activation; party members; party politics |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Economic and Social Research Council ES/N01667X/1; KEIO |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 May 2020 09:40 |
Last Modified: | 28 Apr 2021 11:33 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1369148120918852 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:161121 |