Party Institutionalization and Party Strength: A New Global Dataset - Darin Sanders Self, Shari Franke,

For example, Ran- dall and Svåsand (2003) develop a concept of party institutionalization that differentiates between inter- nal and external dimensions of institutionalization, where the external dimension is concerned with the autonomy of the party and the extent to which voters “reify” the party.5 We do not include the external dimension in our conceptualization of party institutionalization be. [...] Returning to the example of Golkar in Indonesia, the degree of party cohesion and the lack of party switching was clearly inflated during the authoritarian period. [...] For the value in- fusion dimension of party institutionalization, we use Nomination to capture the extent to which indi- vidual party members’ advancement is tied to the party, and Continuation to measure the permanence of the party. [...] The formulas for these measures are identical to the global measures, with the primary difference being the subset of observations included in the factor analysis.24 In addition to creating regime-specific scores for individual parties, we also aggregate the measures to allow researchers to conduct analysis at the party system level. [...] First, these are the DALP versions of the components used in our measures, and are among some of the best measures of party organization in the field.