1st Edition
Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties A Comparative Perspective
1. Introduction: Candidates, Parties, and Voters in Representative Democracies
Lieven De Winter, Rune Karlsen and Hermann Schmitt
2. Office or Policies? Exploring Candidates’ Motivations to Run for a Party and The Triggering Role of Political Contexts
Pierre Baudewyns and Stefano Camatarri
3. Candidate Selection: Still a Secret Garden?
Mihail Chiru Lieven De Winter Audrey Vandeleene
4. Candidate Campaigns in Comparative Perspective
Rune Karlsen, Georg Lütz and Patrik Öhberg
5. Determinants of Personalised Campaigning: A Comparative Analysis
Iakovos Makropoulos, Sofia Collignon, Heiko Giebler, Wolfgang Rüdig, Javier Sajuria and Wolfgang Weßels
6. Candidates’ Representational Roles
Eva H. Önnudóttir and Åsa von Schoultz
7. Intra-party Ideological Heterogeneity: Are Candidates Agents of their Parties?
Daniela Giannetti and Luca Pinto
8. Policy Representation in Europe
Zsolt Enyedi, Andrea Pedrazzani and Paolo Segatti
9. The Beliefs of Parliamentary Candidates on Electoral Democracy: Who are the Guardians of Democracy and what Motivates them?
Thomas Zittel
10. Conclusion and Perspectives
Lieven De Winter, Rune Karlsen and Hermann Schmitt
Biography
Lieven De Winter is Emeritus Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Rune Karlsen is Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway.
Hermann Schmitt is an Emeritus Professor in Electoral Politics at the University of Manchester, UK, a Research fellow of the MZES and Professor at the University of Mannheim, Germany.
