Within-country determinants of political party structures: Similarity-based analysis of Polish party statutes

Dariusz StolickiCenter for Quantitative Political Science, Jagiellonian University, Beata Kosowska-GąstołFaculty of Political Science and International Relations, Jagiellonian University, Katarzyna Sobolewska-MyślikInstitute of Political Science and Administration, University of Opole

Party Politics: The International Journal for the Study of Political Parties and Political Organizations

Published online on November 27, 2025

Abstract

Party Politics, Ahead of Print.
We seek to explain within-country determinants of political party structures. However, unlike most scholars in the field, who start with hypotheses connecting specific structural features with specific explanatory variables (e.g., ideology, party age), we ...