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Introducing the One-Party Membership Dataset: A dataset on party membership in autocracies

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  • Fabio Angiolillo

    (Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg)

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Recent literature on autocracies focuses on elite politics to study ruling party stability. I focus on the lowest level of the ruling party structure, party members, to introduce new data on party-based autocracies. Party members are unique connectors between ruling party and society, and ruling parties can recur to them for policy enforcement, political control, co-optation and legitimation to secure power. I present the One-Party Membership Dataset (OPAMED), a comprehensive dataset on party membership in autocracies, covering 42 ruling parties across party-based regimes from 1945 to 2020, and introduce two new variables: party size; and party membership volatility. The first variable measures the membership-to-population ratio, while the second measures the rate of co-optation growth from one year to the other. In conclusion, the OPAMED provides a new, flexible and easy-to-use toolkit on ruling parties in party-based autocracies.

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  • Fabio Angiolillo, 2024. "Introducing the One-Party Membership Dataset: A dataset on party membership in autocracies," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 61(4), pages 694-708, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:joupea:v:61:y:2024:i:4:p:694-708
    DOI: 10.1177/00223433231155278
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