1st Edition
Political Candidate Selection Who Wins, Who Loses, and Under-Representation in the UK
By Jeanette Ashe
Copyright 2020
234 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The "secret garden of politics", where some win and others lose their candidate selection bids, and why some aspirant candidates are successful while others fail have been enduring puzzles within political science. This book solves this puzzle by proposing and applying a universally applicable multistage approach to discover the relationship between selection rules, selectors’ biases,... Read more
1. Study Overview
2. The Selection Process Puzzle and Ideal Candidate Types
3. Data and Initial Supply and Demand Tests
4. Centralisation and the Labour Party’s Candidate Selection Process
5. Assessing Centralisation in the British Labour Party’s Selection Process
6. Assessing Early Stage Selector Preference for "Ideal" Candidates
7. Do Local Party Members Select "Ideal" Candidates?
8. Conclusion
Biography
Jeanette Ashe is Chair of the Political Science Department at Douglas College, British Columbia, Canada.
