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In line with the elitist perspective, parties and their leaders have been mostly studied in terms of top down power relationships which are them- selves framed by electoral strategies. However, more attention should be paid to internal relation- ships between “ peers ” which occur at the top of political organizations. Based on an empirical study of the French Socialist Party, this paper aims to demonstrate that the notion of collegiality, bor- rowed to the sociology of organizations is helpful to understand these complex relationships.
Relying on tensions between formal equality and statutory differentiations, they impact their spe- cific activities, such as negotiation, deliberation and decisions.
