Candidate Selection in Comparative Perspective
Candidate Selection in Comparative Perspective

Author: European Consortium for Political Research

Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited

Published: 1988-02

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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This book examines candidate selection in nine liberal democracies -- Belgium, Britain, France, West Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Norway. It describes the methods by which parties select their candidates; analyses the factors which influence the form of selection used; and considers the consequences of candidate selection. The book concludes with an overall assessment of the role of candidate selection in the political process. It questions whether proportional representation necessarily entails centralized candidate selection; whether parties of the Left tend to be more centralized than parties of the Right; and whether different types of candidate selection have distinct consequences for the behaviour of deputies.

Democratizing Candidate Selection
Democratizing Candidate Selection

Author: Guillermo Cordero

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-30

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 3319765507

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This book studies the challenges to conventional politics posed by new ways of selecting candidates for legislative elections. The recent economic crisis had profound political consequences on politics, generating an upsurge in the demand for more participative ways of decision-making in politics channelled through social movements and individuals in different countries. Some parties have reacted by introducing changes in their internal organization (via intra-party democracy), particularly related to the selection of candidates for public office. This volume explores the trends and challenges of these new methods of selection, analyses how the internet is increasingly being used as a selection tool, and evaluates some of the relevant consequences related to political representation, party cohesion and party centralization, among others.

Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective
Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective

Author: Giulia Sandri

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1317083555

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Primary elections for choosing party leaders and candidates are now becoming commonplace in Europe, Asia and America but questions as to how much they hinder a party’s organizational strength and cohesion or affect electoral performance have largely been ignored outside of the USA. Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective gives a much-needed conceptualization to this topic, describing the function and nature of primary elections and providing a comparative analytical framework to the impact of primaries on the internal and external functioning of political parties. Elaborating on the analytical tools developed to study the US experience this framework engages with primary elections in Europe and Asia offering a theoretical, comparative and empirical account of the emergence of party primaries and an invaluable guide to internal electoral processes and their impact.

Democracy Within Parties
Democracy Within Parties

Author: Reuven Y. Hazan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-07

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0199572542

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This text presents a new approach to understanding political parties. It sheds light on the inner dynamics of party politics and offers a comprehensive analysis of one of the most important processes any party undertakes, its process of candidate selection.

Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties
Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties

Author: Lieven De Winter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1000208184

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This book offers the first comprehensive, comparative and coherent perspective on parliamentary candidates in contemporary representative democracy. Based on the unique database of the ‘Comparative Candidate Survey' project which interrogated parliamentary candidates in more than 30 countries, it fills a significant lacuna by focusing on the thousands of ordinary candidates that participate in national elections. It examines who the candidates are in terms of their socio-demographic background and political career patterns, how they were selected by their parties, what their policy preference are and whether these are congruent to those held by their voters, who they seek to represent and how they intend to do so once elected, and what their visions are on representative democracy and party government. Last but not least, it investigates how they go about reaching out to their potential voters during the election campaign. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party politics, political elites, political communication, political participation, elections, theories of democracy and representation, legislative studies, voting behaviour and more broadly to European politics, as well as to political and policy professionals throughout Europe.

Gendered Electoral Financing
Gendered Electoral Financing

Author: Ragnhild L. Muriaas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367247713

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Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from seven country studies, Gendered Electoral Financing is the first cross-regional examination of the nexus between money and political recruitment across the world.

Quotas for Women in Politics
Quotas for Women in Politics

Author: Mona Lena Krook

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-03-04

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0199745269

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In recent years, political parties and national legislatures in more than one hundred countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to political office. Despite the rapid international diffusion of these measures, most research has focused on single countries - or, at most, the presence of quotas within one world region. Consequently, explanations for the adoption and impact of gender quotas derived from one study often contradict with findings from other cases. Quotas for Women in Politics is the first book to address quotas as a global phenomenon to explain their spread and impact in diverse contexts around the world. It is organized around two sets of questions. First, why are quotas adopted? Which actors are involved in quota campaigns, and why do they support or oppose quota measures? Second, what effects do quotas have on existing patterns of political representation? Are these provisions sufficient for bringing more women into politics? Or, does their impact depend on other features of the broader political context? Synthesizing literature on quota policies, this book develops a framework for analyzing the spread of quota provisions and the reasons for variations in their effects. It then applies this framework to examine and compare campaigns for reserved seats in Pakistan and India, party quotas in Sweden and the United Kingdom, and legislative quotas in Argentina and France.

When Movements Become Parties
When Movements Become Parties

Author: Santiago Anria

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 110842757X

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Provides a new way of thinking about parties formed by social movements, and their evolution over time.

Gender, Politics and Institutions
Gender, Politics and Institutions

Author: M. Krook

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-12-07

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0230303919

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Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change.