Panebianco’s Organizational Model and its Applicability on the Transformation of Communist Parties in the West Europe
Abstract
The paper deals with the organizational model of political parties created by Italian political scientist Angelo Panebianco. For presentation of this, outside Italian academic discourse, „unknown“ model is necessary to briefly describe the whole organizational theory and to introduce the review of this model.
After that we examine the applicability of the Panebianco´s scheme on the structural transformation of communist political parties in the end of 1980s. This suitability will be measured on the case example of the Italian Communist Party (PCI).
The PCI was historically the strongest and most influential communist party outside the Soviet bloc and that is why is convenient to applicate the organizational model on the party organization changes of the PCI during its transformation. We also define five main criterias of these changes and their compatibility with the Panebianco´s model.
Thus the main aim of this paper is to prove the suitability of the organization model not only to the structural transformation of the Italian communists but using this case example also to the universal transformation of the communist parties in the western world.