Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Mjelde, Hilmar Langhelle"
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Explaining Membership Growth in the Norwegian Progress Party from 1973 to 2008
Mjelde, Hilmar Langhelle (Master thesis, 2008)This thesis is concerned with explaining the membership growth in the Norwegian Progress Party, Fremskrittspartiet, from its founding in 1973 to 2008. Two major studies, Katz and Mair (1992) and Mair and van Biezen (2001), ... -
Fremskrittspartiets organisatoriske utvikling fra 1973 til 2013: fra antiparti til masseparti?
Mjelde, Hilmar Langhelle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)Denne artikkelen analyserer Fremskrittspartiets organisatoriske utvikling fra oppstarten som en løs bevegelse under Anders Lange, og spør om Frp i dag har blitt et regulært masseparti. Selv om massepartiet ikke representerer ... -
How and Why Parties Respond to Membership Decline: The Case of the SPD and the CDU
Mjelde, Hilmar Langhelle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)A dominant assumption in the existing literature on party organisation in Western Europe holds that parties acquiesce in membership decline because modern campaigning is capital- rather than labour-intensive. This article ... -
Still indispensable: how modern parties need grass roots activists for campaigning and sustaining democracy
Mjelde, Hilmar Langhelle (Doctoral thesis, 2014-06-13)This dissertation argues that modern political parties still need grass roots activists for campaigning and sustaining democracy. Western European parties have lost members at an increasing rate over the last 50 years and ...