Interactions between party members and local party activists: A formal model and its empirical applicationFootnote*

The author is indebted to his colleagues and students at the Social Science Informatics Department at the EWH Koblenz as well as to two anonymous referees for helpful criticism. The data employed were collected in the research project “Party System and Legitimation of the Political System” directed by Professors Heino Kaack and Reinhold Roth and funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. They will soon be available from the Zentralarchiv für empirische Sozialforschung at Cologne.

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