New Paths for Selecting Political Elites: Investigating the Impact of Inclusive Candidate and Party Leader Selection Methods

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Table of Contents
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Contributors
1 Intra-Party Selection Methods and Political Elites: New Trends and Consequences
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Selection of Political Elites: What we know so Far
1.3 Political Elites: Understanding the Interaction Between Party Organizations and Leadership
1.4 Rationales and Aims of this Volume
1.5 Plan of the Book
References
2 Choosing Party Leaders in Italy Between Personalization and Democratization
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Varieties of Party Models in Italy
2.3 Selection Methods Over Time
2.4 Demographics Characteristics
2.5 Conclusions
Note
References
3 Playing With Fire?: The Organizational Consequences of Party Primaries in Spain
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Organizational Consequences of Introducing Party primaries On the Party Elites’ Strength
3.3 The Introduction of Party Primaries in Spanish Politics
3.4 The Organizational Consequences of First-Time Party Primaries in Spain
3.5 Discussion
3.6 Conclusions
Notes
References
4 The Outcomes of Party Primaries: (Dis)continuity in Top Candidates’ Political and Partisan Profiles
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Theoretical Debate: Do Primaries Produce New Types of Top Candidates?
4.3 Using Spain to Disentangle the Role of Party Primaries
4.4 Results
4.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
5 Candidate Selection, Personalization of Politics, and Political Careers: Insights From Italy (2006–2016)
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Italian Case in a Cross-Time Perspective
5.3 Candidate Selection, Personalization of Politics, and Patterns of Career: Is there a Connection?
5.4 Empirical Analysis
5.5 Conclusions
Notes
References
6 Impact of Intra-Party Democracy On Patterns of Political Career Within the Intra-Party-Pan-Hellenic Socialist ...
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Intra-Party Democratic Innovations Within Pasok: towards New Patterns of Candidates’ Selection
6.3 Intra-Party Democracy and Changing Patterns of Candidates’ Selection
Traditional Selection Models Within Greek Socialists
6.4 2004: The Primaries As a Shift? The Ambivalence of new Candidates’ Selection Patterns
6.5 To What Extent Has the Profile of Mps Changed Since 2004?
6.6 Conclusions
References
7 The Effect of Introducing Primaries On the Profiles of Candidates in the Turkish Context: The Local Experiences of ...
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Primaries and Political Experiences of Candidates
7.3 Primaries of RPP in Turkey
Abrief History of RPP
Primaries
7.4 Data, Analysis, and Results
7.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
8 Do Candidate Selection Modes Matter for the Gender Diversity Within Political Elites?: Evidence From the Belgian Case ...
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Gender Diversity On the Lists: Literature Review and Hypotheses
8.3 The Case of Belgium in 2014
8.4 Method and Empirical Results: Do Candidate Selection Processes Matter?
Operationalization of Variables
Method of Analysis
8.5 Empirical Analysis: How Candidate Selection Impacts Gender Diversity
8.6 Conclusions
Note
References
9 The Use of Primaries for the Selection of Party Leaders in the Uk Conservative and Labour Parties: Formal Rules and ...
9.1 Introduction and Research Questions
9.2 The Method: the Hypotheses of Organizational Convergence and Ideological Congruence
9.3 An Overview of Leadership Election Rules
9.4 Conclusions
Notes
References
10 Do Different Candidate Selection Methods Produce Different Types of Candidates?: An Analysis of the German Case
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Candidate Selection Methods, Party Ideology, and the Representativeness of Candidates
10.3 Candidate Selection in Germany
10.4 Data and Methods
Case Selection and Data
Operationalization: Outcome and Predictor Variables
10.5 Results
10.6 Conclusion
Notes
References
11 The ‘Belle Époque’ of French Primary: The Evolution of the National and Local Framework of Candidate Selection
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Research Question, Data, and Methods
11.3 The Socialist Experiment and the Development of the Primary in France
The First-Time Selection of the Presidential Candidate
The Stop and Return of the Primaries: the First Female Candidate
The Open Primaries for the Conquest of the Presidency
From Riches to Rags: the End of Socialist Primaries?
11.4 The Contagion Effects in the Adoption of Primaries By Communists, Ecologists, and Civil Society
The 2002 Presidential Elections
The 2007 Presidential Elections
The 2012 Presidential Elections
The 2017 Presidential Elections
11.5 The Primary of Others: From the Centre-Left to the Centre-Left-Centre-Right
The first attempts of the centre-right parties
11.6 The local primary from 2014 to 2020
11.7 The impact on social and political profiles of candidates
11.8 Conclusion
Notes
References
12 Political Elites and Party Primaries
12.1 Political parties between personalizationand intra-party democracy
12.2 Primaries and political elites: the impact of inclusive selectorates
12.3 Preliminary Results and Notes for a Research Agenda
Notes
References
Appendix
Index