When a Right-Wing Populist Party Inherits a Mass Party Organisation: The Case of EKRE
| Autor: | Leif Kalev, Tõnis Saarts, Mari-Liis Jakobson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Estonia
Populismus Public Administration Sociology and Political Science organizational structure media_common.quotation_subject Politikwissenschaft membership Face (sociological concept) party organisation Political science (General) Power (social and political) Politics Political science successor parties Mitgliedschaft Mainstream Estland Political Process Elections Political Sociology Political Culture media_common politische Rechte politische Willensbildung politische Soziologie politische Kultur ekre right-wing populism Organisationsentwicklung EKRE Partei political right Estonian language.human_language populism estonia Variety (cybernetics) Core (game theory) Political economy ddc:320 language Ideology Organisationsstruktur party organizational development JA1-92 |
| Zdroj: | Politics and Governance Right-Wing Populist Party Organisation Across Europe: The Survival of the Mass-Party? Politics and Governance, Vol 9, Iss 4, Pp 354-364 (2021) |
| Popis: | When the Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond (EKRE, Estonian Conservative People’s Party) took over the defunct but extensive party organisation of the Estonian People’s Union, it placed great emphasis on rebooting and extending the organisation and bringing in new activists. As a result, EKRE has grown into a full-fledged mass party type of organisation with all the characteristics associated to it. Furthermore, it has become the fastest-growing party in Estonia in terms of membership and been notably successful in electoral terms. This article focuses primarily on the question of how EKRE developed a mass party organisation with a strong, ideologically-devoted activist core and a remarkable presence on the ground. The article also demonstrates how the party offers a variety of opportunities for engagement to its members. In contrast to an archetypical right-wing populist party, the decision-making power is somewhat diffused within the party, though the party leader remains the public face and mouthpiece of the party. EKRE’s online engagement strategies have been among the most successful in recent Estonian politics and make the party stand out. The article demonstrates that parties can often revise as well as repurpose the features of the predecessor parties and even build defunct mainstream parties into mass parties with a firm ideological core. |
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