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This book studies the challenges to conventional politics posed by
new ways of selecting candidates for legislative elections. The
recent economic crisis had profound political consequences on
politics, generating an upsurge in the demand for more
participative ways of decision-making in politics channelled
through social movements and individuals in different countries.
Some parties have reacted by introducing changes in their internal
organization (via intra-party democracy), particularly related to
the selection of candidates for public office. This volume explores
the trends and challenges of these new methods of selection,
analyses how the internet is increasingly being used as a selection
tool, and evaluates some of the relevant consequences related to
political representation, party cohesion and party centralization,
among others.
Selecting candidates for elections is a major goal of political
parties and a major function of political regimes in democratic
systems. With the negative effects of the economic crisis being
seen to translate into changes in voting patterns, and citizens
using elections to punish parties in government for their roles in
economic mismanagement or lack of response to the global economic
crisis, a broad examination is required. This book is presented as
the first comparative study of the effects of the political crisis
on candidate selection covering a large number of countries. Using
an integrated framework and unified strategy, it examines how new
relevant political actors are really implementing participative
ways of candidate selection, whether they are being innovative in
their political environments and the extent to which traditionally
mainstream parties are changing selection procedures to have more
open and inclusive mechanisms as part of internal, or intra-party,
democracy. The book illuminates these issues through empirically
driven chapters explaining changes in the way candidates for
parliaments are selected in countries where new parties have
emerged and consolidated, or where traditional mainstream parties
have adopted new mechanisms of selection affecting (if not
challenging) traditional politics. Additionally, therefore, this
work will serve as a response to some current debates in the
discipline on the consequences of the democratization of party
life, relating political participation and representation. This
text will be of key interest to scholars and students of political
parties, organizational change, social and political elites and
more broadly to comparative politics and sociology.
This book studies the challenges to conventional politics posed by
new ways of selecting candidates for legislative elections. The
recent economic crisis had profound political consequences on
politics, generating an upsurge in the demand for more
participative ways of decision-making in politics channelled
through social movements and individuals in different countries.
Some parties have reacted by introducing changes in their internal
organization (via intra-party democracy), particularly related to
the selection of candidates for public office. This volume explores
the trends and challenges of these new methods of selection,
analyses how the internet is increasingly being used as a selection
tool, and evaluates some of the relevant consequences related to
political representation, party cohesion and party centralization,
among others.
Selecting candidates for elections is a major goal of political
parties and a major function of political regimes in democratic
systems. With the negative effects of the economic crisis being
seen to translate into changes in voting patterns, and citizens
using elections to punish parties in government for their roles in
economic mismanagement or lack of response to the global economic
crisis, a broad examination is required. This book is presented as
the first comparative study of the effects of the political crisis
on candidate selection covering a large number of countries. Using
an integrated framework and unified strategy, it examines how new
relevant political actors are really implementing participative
ways of candidate selection, whether they are being innovative in
their political environments and the extent to which traditionally
mainstream parties are changing selection procedures to have more
open and inclusive mechanisms as part of internal, or intra-party,
democracy. The book illuminates these issues through empirically
driven chapters explaining changes in the way candidates for
parliaments are selected in countries where new parties have
emerged and consolidated, or where traditional mainstream parties
have adopted new mechanisms of selection affecting (if not
challenging) traditional politics. Additionally, therefore, this
work will serve as a response to some current debates in the
discipline on the consequences of the democratization of party
life, relating political participation and representation. This
text will be of key interest to scholars and students of political
parties, organizational change, social and political elites and
more broadly to comparative politics and sociology.
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