Political Candidate Selection - Who Wins, Who Loses, and Under-Representation in the Uk

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, selectors' biases, aspirants' attributes, and selection outcomes.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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, selectors’ biases, aspirants’ attributes, and selection outcomes.

Product details

• Authors: Jeanette Ashe, Jeanette (Douglas College Ashe
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781138039513
• ISBN: 978-1-138-03951-3
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems; Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education