Abstract
This chapter places the phenomenon of entrepreneurial parties in the wider historical perspective of the types of political party. The text offers a definition of an entrepreneurial party based on a discussion of scholarly concepts. The empirical reality shows that political entrepreneurs differ in the size and role of their businesses and their approach to party organisation. The differences are used to create a typology which combines two characteristics. The first is the business facilities of political entrepreneurs, that is, their ability and willingness to invest their own financial, media, personnel and other resources into the start-up and operation of their parties. Simply put, there are political entrepreneurs ‘with a firm’ and those ‘without a firm’. The second characteristic is concerned with whether there is any party membership and territorial structure at all. Further, the chapter outlines the topics of party durability and collapse and presents a three-phase model of the institutionalisation of entrepreneurial parties.
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