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Title:

Parliamentary candidates between voters and parties : a comparative perspective / edited by Lieven De Winter, Rune Karlsen and Hermann Schmitt.

Publisher:

RoutledgeTaylor & Francis Group,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xvi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Political candidates--Western countries--Case studies.
Political parties--Western countries--Case studies.
Representative government and representation--Western countries--Case studies.
Delegation of powers--Western countries--Case studies.
Government accountability--Western countries--Case studies.
Agency (Law)--Western countries--Case studies.
Agency (Law)
Delegation of powers.
Government accountability.
Political candidates.
Political parties.
Representative government and representation.
Western countries.
Case studies.

Other Authors:

Winter, Lieven de, editor.
Karlsen, Rune, editor.
Schmitt, Hermann, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Candidates, parties, and voters in representative democracies / Lieven De Winter, Rune Karlsen and Hermann Schmitt -- Office or policies? Exploring candidates' motivations to run for a party and the triggering role of political contexts / Pierre Baudewyns and Stefano Camatarri -- Candidate selection : still a secret garden? / Mihail Chiru Lieven De Winter Audrey Vandeleene -- Candidate campaigns in comparative perspective / Rune Karlsen, Georg Lu˜tz and Patrik O˜hberg -- Determinants of personalised campaigning : a comparative analysis / Iakovos Makropoulos, Sofia Collignon, Heiko Giebler, Wolfgang Ru˜dig, Javier Sajuria and Wolfgang Wessels -- Candidates' representational roles / Eva H. O˜nnudottir and Asa von Schoultz -- Intra-party ideological heterogeneity : are candidates agents of their parties? / Daniela Giannetti and Luca Pinto -- Policy representation in Europe / Zsolt Enyedi, Andrea Pedrazzani and Paolo Segatti -- The beliefs of parliamentary candidates on electoral democracy : who are the guardians of democracy and what motivates them? / Thomas Zittel -- Conclusion and perspectives / Lieven De Winter, Rune Karlsen and Hermann Schmitt.

Summary:

"This book offers the first comprehensive, comparative and coherent perspective on parliamentary candidates in contemporary representative democracy. Based on the unique database of the 'Comparative Candidate Survey' project which interrogated parliamentary candidates in more than 30 countries, it fills a significant lacuna by focusing on the thousands of ordinary candidates that participate in national elections. It examines who the candidates are in terms of their socio-demographic background and political career patterns, how they were selected by their parties, what their policy preference are and whether these are congruent to those held by their voters, who they seek to represent and how they intend to do so once elected, and what their visions are on representative democracy and party government. Last but not least, it investigates how they go about reaching out to their potential voters during the election campaign. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party politics, political elites, political communication, political participation, elections, theories of democracy and representation, legislative studies, voting behaviour and more broadly to European politics, as well as to political and policy professionals throughout Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites

ISBN:

0367248514
9780367248512

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1161996706

LCCN:

2020022200

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)