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VOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party

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  • Astrid Barrio

    (Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science, University of Valencia, Spain)

  • Sonia Alonso Sáenz de Oger

    (International Politics, Georgetown University in Qatar, Qatar)

  • Bonnie N. Field

    (Department of Global Studies, Bentley University, USA)

Abstract

This article examines the organisation of VOX, a new radical right party in Spain. It shows that the party has taken early and uneven steps to build a mass organisation and initially opted for open membership recruitment with participatory organisational elements. Also, the party’s rapid growth and quick entrance into political institutions at different state levels led the party leadership to establish more centralised control and limit members’ prerogatives, though recruitment continued. Centralisation in part responds to organisational needs given the party’s quickly acquired political relevance, but also to the desire of the central party leadership to forestall the articulation of territorial interests, or prevent them from escaping their control. Today, VOX exhibits elements of mass party organisation and highly centralised decision-making in the hands of national party leaders.

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  • Astrid Barrio & Sonia Alonso Sáenz de Oger & Bonnie N. Field, 2021. "VOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 9(4), pages 240-251.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:poango:v:9:y:2021:i:4:p:240-251
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    1. Daniele Albertazzi & Stijn van Kessel, 2021. "Right-Wing Populist Party Organisation Across Europe: The Survival of the Mass-Party? Introduction to the Thematic Issue," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 9(4), pages 224-227.
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    2. Laura Cervi & Santiago Tejedor & Mónica Gracia Villar, 2023. "Twitting Against the Enemy: Populist Radical Right Parties Discourse Against the (Political) “Other”," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 11(2), pages 235-248.

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