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4 - Origins and Reproduction of the Mass-Organic Structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2019

Verónica Pérez Bentancur
Affiliation:
Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Rafael Piñeiro Rodríguez
Affiliation:
Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Fernando Rosenblatt
Affiliation:
Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
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This chapter uses process tracing to argue that organizations that grant voice and veto power to activists in the decision-making process avoid oligarchization of the party. The FA presents an opportunity to analyze how party organization per se affects the performance of political parties. The FA is a successful case of party building and reproduction that sheds light on the role organizational structure plays in reproducing activists. The process tracing systematically describes and explains the formation and reproduction of the party. It shows how the party´s first steps as a political organization established a reproduction mechanism with a lock-in effect that explains the persistence of the party’s activism.

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How Party Activism Survives
Uruguay's Frente Amplio
, pp. 81 - 107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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