TY - CHAP

T1 - Slow convergence or no change at all?

T2 - The development of west european party funding regimes, 2003-2013

AU - Koß, Michael

PY - 2015/1/1

Y1 - 2015/1/1

N2 - In my recent book on the politics of party funding, I argued that West European party funding systems have converged (Koß 2011).¹ By “converged,” I mean that a cross-party, cross-national consensus about appropriate regulations of party funding has developed. Convergence can be defined, however, as “a process of ‘becoming’ rather than a condition of ‘being’ more alike. . . . In comparative research, therefore, the essential theoretical dimension is temporal rather than spatial” (Bennett 1991, 219). In practice, this means that there are still salient differences among European nations’ systems but that these differences have become smaller over time. This...

AB - In my recent book on the politics of party funding, I argued that West European party funding systems have converged (Koß 2011).¹ By “converged,” I mean that a cross-party, cross-national consensus about appropriate regulations of party funding has developed. Convergence can be defined, however, as “a process of ‘becoming’ rather than a condition of ‘being’ more alike. . . . In comparative research, therefore, the essential theoretical dimension is temporal rather than spatial” (Bennett 1991, 219). In practice, this means that there are still salient differences among European nations’ systems but that these differences have become smaller over time. This...

KW - Politics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85018852778&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.press.umich.edu/8421138/deregulatory_moment

U2 - 10.3998/mpub.8083157

DO - 10.3998/mpub.8083157

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

AN - SCOPUS:85018852778

SN - 978-0-472-07285-9

SN - 978-0-472-05285-1

SP - 177

EP - 199

BT - The Deregulatory Moment?

A2 - Boatright, Robert G.

PB - University of Michigan Press

CY - Michigan

ER -