This book presents an integrated approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy
through deductive and standardized content analysis of party statutes. Following the two main
criteria of intra-party democracy - inclusiveness and decentralization - three main categories
of intra-party democracy are theoretically derived: members' rights organizational structure
and decision-making. On the basis of theoretical considerations further sub-categories and
individual items are deduced from these main categories and put together into a comprehensive
coding scheme. Furthermore precise coding instructions are presented. Since it is the ultimate
aim of this book to present an approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy for any
party statute and to express this in numerical terms the final step is the quantification of
the coded data and the calculation of a numeric measure of intra-party democracy. A numeric
value of intra-party democracy can be calculated for any statute of any political party.
Furthermore empirical examples from Hungary Slovakia and Romania are presented.
