1st Edition

New Paths for Selecting Political Elites Investigating the impact of inclusive Candidate and Party Leader Selection Methods

Edited By Giulia Sandri, Antonella Seddone Copyright 2021
274 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides a cross-country study of the consequences of the expansion of intra-party democracy, the trend towards more inclusive methods of selection for party candidates and leaders, and the impact of these on political elites in terms of sociopolitical profile and patterns of careers. It explores the link between political organizations and political elites, by studying the role of... Read more

1. Intra-party selection methods and political elites: new trends and consequences

Giulia Sandri and Antonella Seddone

2. Choosing party leaders in Italy between personalization and democratization

Marco Valbruzzi

3. Playing with fire? The organizational consequences of party primaries in Spain

Oscar Barberà and Juan Rodríguez-Teruel

4. The outcomes of party primaries: (Dis)continuity in top candidates’ political and partisan profiles

Javier Martínez-Cantó and Javier Astudillo

5. Candidate selection, personalization of politics, and political careers: Insights from Italy

Bruno Marino, Nicola Martocchia Diodati and Luca Verzichelli

6. Impact of intraparty democracy on patterns of political career within Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement: PASOK in Greece

Dimitrios Kosmopoulos

7. The effect of introducing primaries on the profiles of candidates in the Turkish context: The local experiences of candidates

Faruk Aksoy

8. Do candidate selection modes matter for the gender diversity within political elites? Evidence from the Belgian case in 2014

Audrey Vandeleene

9. The use of primaries for the selection of party leaders in the UK Conservative and Labour parties: Formal rules and ideological congruence

Agnès Alexandre-Collier and Emmanuelle Avril

10. Do different candidate selection methods produce different types of candidates? An analysis of the German case

Elisa Deiss-Helbig

11. The 'Belle Époque' of French primary. The evolution of the national and local framework of candidate selection

Marino De Luca

12. Political elites and party primaries

Antonella Seddone and Giulia Sandri

Biography

Giulia Sandri is Associate Professor at the European School of Political and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Lille, France.

Antonella Seddone is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin, Italy.