Abstract
Political parties in the Europe are in a privileged position of policy making. We can ask following questions: How do political parties react to this increasing tension between expertization of politics and politicization of expertise? What are their organisational and personal capacities to cope with this challenge? Who are the people involved? What are they doing? etc.
Here we will be interested in how the political parties generate expertise that is essential for their involvement in the policy-making process. In this contribution we would like to answer the following question: How is the generation of policy-related expertise tailored according to internal structure of political parties? Our aim is to use the cartel-party theory (Richard Katz and Peter Mair, cartel-party theory generally and Katz´s and Mair´s concept of a political party in the strict sense) and subsequently to use the theories and methods used so far to analyze organizations/public administration (the concepts of policy capacity, policy analysis and policy advice system of Michael Howlett and the multi-stream theory of John Kingdon resp.
Nikolaos Zahariadis) in order to do our analysis of the policy-making related expertise in Czech political parties.