89955 driver oai:ddd.uab.cat:89955 hdl_2072_1222 oai:www.recercat.cat:2072/182695 eng 32 Baras i Gómez, Montserrat Intra-Party Democracy and middle-level elites in Spain Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Barcelona, Catalunya) 2012 22 p. The gradual implementation of new, more participatory and thus, more democratic mechanisms of intra-party decision-making has been pointed out by several party politics scholars. This phenomenon has been studied as the party elite’s reactions to a widespread trend in Western countries: the party membership decline. Spain is still a deviant case in both the party membership decline trend, and with regards to the introduction of more participatory and democratic decision-making mechanisms. However, the paper point out that support for intra-party democracy is quite widespread within Spanish party middle elites (party delegates). That is why the aim of this paper is to explain which factors are underpinning the supports for intra-party democracy amongst Spanish party delegates. After conducting a multivariate analysis, the results show that ideology, the involvement in intra-party experiences and the degree of pragmatism, amongst others, are factors strongly associated with the support for intraparty democracy in Spanish party middle elites. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ Elit (Ciències socials) -- Espanya Partits polítics -- Espanya info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper Rodríguez, Joan (Rodríguez Teruel) Barberà i Aresté, Òscar, 1974- Barberà i Aresté, Òscar, 1974- Barrio, Astrid Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials. Barcelona, Catalunya Working papers (Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Barcelona, Catalunya)) ; 304 22 318686 http://ddd.uab.cat/pub/worpap/2012/hdl_2072_182695/wpicps304.pdf Adreça alternativa http://hdl.handle.net/2072/182695 WORPAP UAB file 0 MD5 415d927051ee9c21f689094144a784a0 318686 PDF 1.4 filepath pub/worpap/2012/hdl_2072_182695/wpicps304.pdf disk