Dados ISSN: 0011-5258 ISSN: 1678-4588 Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos (IESP) da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Santo, Paula do Espírito; Lisi, Marco; Costa, Bruno Ferreira Party Membership and Activism in a New Democracy: Evidence from the Portuguese Case * Dados, vol. 61, no. 4, October-December, 2018, pp. 467-497 Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos (IESP) da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) DOI: 10.1590/001152582018165 Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=21858216006 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System Redalyc More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Project academic non-profit, developed under the open access initiative Party Membership and Activism in a New Democracy: Evidence from the Portuguese Case* Paula do Espírito Santo1 Marco Lisi2 Bruno Ferreira Costa3 1CAPP/ISCSP/ Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. E-mail:
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[email protected] INTRODUCTION he role of political parties in contemporary democracies is chan- T ging and significant transformations have occurred in terms of or- ganisational characteristics. Parties are experiencing two common trends: an increasing personalisation (Poguntke and Webb 2005), on the one hand, and a crisis of membership organisations on the other (van Biezen et al. 2012). These trends have especially affected the cha- racteristics and roles played by the ‘party on the ground’.