Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties (eBook, PDF)

A Comparative Perspective
Redaktion: de Winter, Lieven; Schmitt, Hermann; Karlsen, Rune

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first comprehensive, comparative and coherent perspective on parliamentary candidates in contemporary representative democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000208146
• Artikelnr.: 60092179

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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