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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 parties in parliamentary and political
selection and its impact on the political leadership appointed.
Putting an emphasis on primary elections, it analyses the party
elites that emerge from those selection processes and those
democratized organizational settings. It focuses not only on the
analysis of the processes through which party elites are selected
and the consequences at the level of the party but also at the
level of party elites themselves, i.e. what impact party primaries
have on the characteristics parties’ candidates and leaders. The
book offers a theoretical, comparative, and empirical account of
the internal electoral processes of parties and their impact on
political recruitment. This book will be of key interest to
scholars and students of political elites, political parties and
party systems, electoral politics, democracy, populism, and
leadership, and more broadly to comparative politics.
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 parties in parliamentary and political
selection and its impact on the political leadership appointed.
Putting an emphasis on primary elections, it analyses the party
elites that emerge from those selection processes and those
democratized organizational settings. It focuses not only on the
analysis of the processes through which party elites are selected
and the consequences at the level of the party but also at the
level of party elites themselves, i.e. what impact party primaries
have on the characteristics parties' candidates and leaders. The
book offers a theoretical, comparative, and empirical account of
the internal electoral processes of parties and their impact on
political recruitment. This book will be of key interest to
scholars and students of political elites, political parties and
party systems, electoral politics, democracy, populism, and
leadership, and more broadly to comparative politics.
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.
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.
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