Democratizing Candidate Selection
Subtitle: New Methods, Old Receipts?
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 16, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9783319765495
Description: "This text studies the challenges to conventional politics posed by new ways of selecting candidates for legislative elections. The recent economic crisis had profound political consequences on politics, generating an upsurge in the demand for more participative ways of decision-making in politics channelled through social movements and individuals in different countries. Some parties have reacted by introducing changes in their internal organization (via intra-party democracy), particularly related to the selection of candidates for public office. This volume explores the trends and challenges of these new methods of selection, analyses how the internet is increasingly being used as a selection tool, and evaluates some of the relevant consequences related to political representation, party cohesion and party centralization, among others"--
Notes: Source title: Democratizing Candidate Selection: New Methods, Old Receipts?