Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties

A Comparative Perspective
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-24851-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Winter, Lieven

Karlsen, Rune

Schmitt, Hermann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Candidates, Parties, and Voters in Representative Democracies 2. Office or Policies? Exploring Candidates’ Motivations to Run for a Party and The Triggering Role of Political Contexts 3. Candidate Selection: Still a Secret Garden? 4. Candidate Campaigns in Comparative Perspective 5. Determinants of Personalised Campaigning: A Comparative Analysis 6. Candidates’ Representational Roles 7. Intra-party Ideological Heterogeneity: Are Candidates Agents of their Parties? 8. Policy Representation in Europe 9. The Beliefs of Parliamentary Candidates on Electoral Democracy: Who are the Guardians of Democracy and what Motivates them? 10. Conclusion and Perspectives

Über Autor(innen)

Lieven De Winter is Emeritus Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Rune Karlsen is Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway.

Hermann Schmitt is an Emeritus Professor in Electoral Politics at the University of Manchester, UK, a Research fellow of the MZES and Professor at the University of Mannheim, Germany.