How party links with organizations can increase voter loyalty

The Greens in England and Wales have had a couple of good showings in recent opinion polls. The reality though is that the Party has no foreseeable chance of increasing its parliamentary representation or enacting its own version of the Green New Deal. Only the Labour Party can effectively represent progressives hope of a decisive change of direction for the country.

Catherine De Vries and Sara Hobolt, two of Europe’s most distinguished scholars of party competition, have already established first-mover advantage with the concept of entrepreneurial parties, political parties that innovate by mobilising issues that were not...