The Rise of Entrepreneurial Parties in European Politics

​Chapter 1 Introduction<div><br></div><div>Chapter 2 Political entrepreneurs and their parties: conceptual and typological issues</div><div>Types of parties in the context of historical and social trends</div><div>Conceptual differences, definition and concept of entrepreneurial parties</div><div>A typology of entrepreneurial parties</div><div>The institutionalisation of entrepreneurial parties</div><div>Research sources and instruments&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 3 The party as a spin-off from a business empire</div><div>The (in)famous pioneer: Berlusconi’s Forza Italia&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;‘Down with the dinosaurs!’ or too private Public Affairs in Czechia</div><div>Manage everything as a firm: Andrej Babiš’s ANO in Czechia</div><div>On the wrong side of Lithuanian law: Viktor Uspaskich and his Labour Party</div><div>Palikot’s Movement: a one-off sensation involving a Polish political provocateur&nbsp;</div><div>Similarities and differences</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 4 Two tycoons and their one-man shows</div><div>Austria’s Team Stronach: politics as a failed financial investment</div><div>The Slovak performer Igor Matovič and his Ordinary People&nbsp;</div><div>Similarities and differences</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 5 Entrepreneurial parties without firms and without members</div><div>How to build a successful project: Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom</div><div>A closed party failed project: Tomio Okamura’s Dawn of Direct Democracy&nbsp;</div><div>Similarities and differences&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 6 How to build a party organisation without financial capital</div><div>The Norwegian Progress Party: From a free-wheeling, indignant dog-kennel owner to a centralist leader&nbsp;</div><div>Paweł Kukiz: a Polish punk-rock star’s campaign against political parties&nbsp;</div><div>Tomio Okamura’s struggle on behalf of the Czech nation against immigrant ‘parasites’</div><div>Similarities and differences</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 7 Collapse or survival: the organisational resilience of entrepreneurial parties</div><div>Risks posed by political entrepreneurship to democratic politics</div>