Can too much participation harm democracy? Democratic theory places great importance
upon the conduct of elections, but it is not often recognized that the electoral game takes …

Parliamentary debate is a fundamental aspect of democratic law-making. While law makers
everywhere seek to express their views in parliament, there are large discrepancies in who …

The last two decades saw a significant shift in party leaders' selection methods. As part of a
wider phenomenon of intra-party democratization, many parties opened their leadership …

It is difficult to overestimate the role candidate selection plays in determining the number of
women in elected office. While an increasing amount of research has been dedicated to the …

Career Behaviour and the European Parliament seeks to answer the question of how a
political institution, such as the European Parliament, can impact the career ambitions and …

Theories often explain intraparty competition based on electoral conditions and intraparty
rules. This article further opens this black box by considering intraparty statements of …

This article suggests guidelines for identifying the ramifications of central elements of
candidate selection methods for various democratic dimensions–participation, competition …

The right of Xavier Coller, Guillermo Cordero, and Antonio M. Jaime-Castillo to be identified
as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has …

The literature on nomination procedures and intra-party politics shows that engagement in
personalized parliamentary activities helps legislators get re-elected and promoted in the …

The selection of leading candidates by the political families, the so-called
Spitzenkandidaten, is relatively groundbreaking as it is the first form of political recruitment …