Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties
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 who participate in national elections. It examines who the candidates are in terms of their sociodemographic background and political career patterns, how they were selected by their parties, what their policy preferences 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 political and policy professionals throughout Europe.
Lieven De Winter is Emeritus Professor at the Universit 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, Oslo, Norway.
Hermann Schmitt is Emeritus Professor of Electoral Politics at the University of Manchester, UK, a Research Fellow of the MZES and Professor at the University of Mannheim, Germany.
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A Comparative Perspective
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Title: Parliamentary candidates between voters and parties : a comparative perspective / edited by Lieven De Winter, Rune Karlsen and Hermann Schmitt.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020022200 (print) | LCCN 2020022201 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367248512 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429284700 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Political candidatesWestern countriesCase studies. | Political partiesWestern countriesCase studies. | Representative government and representationWestern countriesCase studies. | Delegation of powersWestern countriesCase studies. | Government accountabilityWestern countriesCase studies. | Agency (Law)Western countriesCase studies.
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Pierre Baudewyns is Professor of Political Science at the Universit catholique de Louvain, Belgium. His research interests regard attitudes and behaviour among citizens and elites in Belgium and Europe. He has published in different peer-reviewed journals, and he is currently coordinator of the Belgian Candidate Survey and European Social Survey (French-speaking part).
Stefano Camatarri is Visiting Fellow at Waseda University, Japan, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universit catholique de Louvain, Belgium. His research interests mainly concern the comparative study of electoral behaviour and party competition. He has published in several international peer-reviewed journals such as European Union Politics and Political Studies Review.
Mihail Chiru is Lecturer in East European Politics at the Russian and East European Studies Department, University of Oxford. He previously conducted postdoctoral work at Universit catholique de Louvain and taught at the University of Southampton and the Central European University. His academic interests include legislative studies, party politics and voting behaviour.
Sofia Collignon is a Lecturer in Political Communication at Royal Holloway, University of London (PhD UCL; MSc University of Essex). Sofia is Co-Investigator in the UK Candidate Survey. Her work on candidates, elections and parties has been published in West European Politics,
