@article{2018:jun:direkte_in,
title = {Direkte innerparteiliche Demokratie in der parlamentarischen Demokratie: Das Beispiel der Mitgliederpartei SPD},
year = {2018},
note = {Parliamentary democracies can be characterized as party democracies,
since in many respects parties are key actors in political
decision-making, the recruitment of officials and elected
representatives, and the exercise of power. Intra-party democracy
contributes to the stability and legitimacy of democratic processes as
a whole. In the recent past, many parties have increasingly been
supporting efforts to introduce basic democratic elements. Using the
example of the SPD, the article discusses the opportunities and limits
of direct democracy within political parties and shows that despite
the media-oriented member decisions on the party’s coalition policy,
the SPD still has to be considered a committee-based membership party
of the electoral model, which only occasionally and erratically uses
grassroots democratic procedures.},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {940--950},
author = {Jun, Uwe},
volume = {49},
number = {4}
}