Components of Party Organizational Strength

• Organizational Complexity
  • Accessibility of party headquarters
  • Division of labor
  • Stable, regularized and adequate funding
  • Professionalization of leadership positions
  
  
  
• Programmatic Capacity
  • Institutional support activity
    • fundraising
    • electoral mobilization programs
    • public opinion polling
    • issue leadership
    • publication of a newsletter
  • Candidate-directed activity
    • financial contributions to candidates
    • provision of services to candidates
    • involvement in the recruitment of candidates
    • involvement in the selection of convention delegates
    • preprimary endorsements

Source: Cotter, Cornelius P., James L. Gibson, John F. Bibby, and Robert J. Huckshorn. 1984.  Party Organizations in American Politics.  Praeger.