„Partie politycznych przedsiębiorców” – nowy model partii?
“Parties of political entrepreneurs”: new party model?

Summary/Abstract: Recent changes of social structure and political communication resulted in the emergence of the new type of political parties, which have started to appear since the 1990s. Such parties are difficult to describe using the existing models, so new propositions were developed, the best known are “business-firm parties” or “entrepreneurial parties”. Those two models, and also several other, are analyzed in this paper in order to answer the question whether those propositions are capturing the most important characteristics of the new parties. As the result we confirm that the new model of political parties is really emerging. We propose to name it “parties of political entrepreneurs” because the most important traits of those parties are the central role of the leader in creation and functioning of the party and modes of activity borrowed from the market economy, which are supposed to increase the effectiveness of the party.

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