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Candidate Selection Procedures in Transitional PolitiesA Research NoteDepartment of International Studies, Bentley College, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA 02452, USA, bfield{at}bentley.edu
Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University, Box 7568 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA, siavelpm{at}wfu.edu This research note summarizes initial research from a wider project on the determinants of candidate selection procedures. It seeks to contribute to the growing literature on candidate selection by distinguishing transitional and institutionalized democracies. First, it provides a review of the existing literature, with particular emphasis placed on identifying the existing hypotheses on the determinants of candidate selection procedures. Second, it elucidates why transitional polities differently constrain the choice of legislative candidate selection procedures compared to institutionalized democracies. Third, several hypotheses derived from the literature indicate that the barriers to adopting inclusive legislative candidate selection procedures are higher in transitional than in institutionalized democracies.
Key Words: democratization global literature review political parties selecting candidates
Party Politics, Vol. 14, No. 5,
620-639 (2008) |
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