The article attempts to conduct a comparative analysis of youth parties in the EU. Investigate theoretical approaches understanding concept "political party" - as well highlight main features and characteristics parties.

This study introduces a new data set on personalism in ruling parties across the world’s democracies. We conceptualize party as extent to which are vehicles advance leaders’ personal political careers such that leader has more control over than do other senior elites and compare this concept with related ones. After describing measurement strategy demonstrating reliability validity, we show glo...