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National Parties as Multilevel Organizations in the EU. A Comparative Case Study of Flanders, Denmark and the Netherlands

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This article scrutinizes national political parties' organizational linkages with the European level. Such linkages not only provide parties with information from the European level, but also provide the EU with a source of democratic legitimacy. By applying an inductive research design and qualitatively reconstructing the organizational linkages of 15 parties in Flanders, the Netherlands and Denmark, this article shows that not only national parties' concrete organizational practices, but also their underlying strategies for engaging the European level differ notably. Importantly, parties' multilevel organizational strategies differentiate between an ‘internal’ dimension (linkages with their ‘own’ EU‐level agents) and an ‘external’ dimension (linkages with their Europarty). Building on these case studies, the article presents an original typology of multilevel party organization in an EU context, providing researchers with an empirically grounded and ideal‐typical benchmark for understanding the organization and behaviour of national parties in the EU.

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  • Gilles Pittoors, 2023. "National Parties as Multilevel Organizations in the EU. A Comparative Case Study of Flanders, Denmark and the Netherlands," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(2), pages 416-433, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:61:y:2023:i:2:p:416-433
    DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13379
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    1. Gilles Pittoors, 2020. "Living Apart Together? The Organization of Political Parties beyond the Nation-State: The Flemish Case," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 50-60.
    2. Simon Otjes, 2021. "The EU Elephant: Europe in the 2021 Dutch General Elections," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 56(2), pages 70-75, March.
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