Jeanette Ashe (Canada Douglas College)

Political Candidate Selection

Who Wins, Who Loses, and Under-Representation in the UK

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book solves the puzzle of why some aspirant candidates are successful while others fail, by proposing and applying a universally applicable multistage approach to discover the relationship between selection rules, selectorsâ biases, aspirantsâ attributes, and selection outcomes.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 164mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781138039513
• ISBN-10: 1138039519
• Artikelnr.: 58380713

Autorenporträt

Jeanette Ashe is Chair of the Political Science Department at Douglas College, British Columbia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Study Overview 2. The Selection Process Puzzle and Ideal Candidate Types
3. Data and Initial Supply and Demand Tests 4. Centralisation and the
Labour Party's Candidate Selection Process 5. Assessing Centralisation in
the British Labour Party's Selection Process 6. Assessing Early Stage
Selector Preference for "Ideal" Candidates 7. Do Local Party Members Select
"Ideal" Candidates? 8. Conclusion