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Beschreibung
While extensive research examines electoral systems and institutions at the country-level, few studies investigate rules within parties. Inside Parties changes the research landscape by systematically examining 65 parties in 20 parliamentary democracies around the world. Georgia Kernell develops a formal model of party membership and tests the hypotheses using cross-national surveys, member studies, experiments, and computer simulations of projected vote shares. She finds that a party's level of decentralization - the degree to which it incorporates rank and file members into decision making - determines which voters it best represents. Decentralized parties may attract more members to campaign for the party, but they do so at the cost of adopting more extreme positions that pull them away from moderate voters. Novel and comprehensive, Inside Parties is an indispensable study of how parties select candidates, nominate leaders, and set policy goals.
While extensive research examines electoral systems and institutions at the country-level, few studies investigate rules within parties. Inside Parties changes the research landscape by systematically examining 65 parties in 20 parliamentary democracies around the world. Georgia Kernell develops a formal model of party membership and tests the hypotheses using cross-national surveys, member studies, experiments, and computer simulations of projected vote shares. She finds that a party's level of decentralization - the degree to which it incorporates rank and file members into decision making - determines which voters it best represents. Decentralized parties may attract more members to campaign for the party, but they do so at the cost of adopting more extreme positions that pull them away from moderate voters. Novel and comprehensive, Inside Parties is an indispensable study of how parties select candidates, nominate leaders, and set policy goals.
Über den Autor
Georgia Kernell is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Communication and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. A model of party membership; 3. Comparing party organizations; 4. Party members: motivations, attitudes, and behaviours; 5. A causal connection? A survey experiment of British labour voters; 6. Party responsiveness; 7. Conclusion; Appendices: A. Proofs; B. List of interviews; C. List of party statutes; D. Chapter 4 supplementary tables; E. Chapter 6 supplementary information.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781009514699
ISBN-10: 1009514695
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kernell, Georgia
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Georgia Kernell
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.01.2025
Gewicht: 0,434 kg
Artikel-ID: 132458351