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 …

Primary elections for choosing party leaders and candidates are now becoming
commonplace in Europe, Asia and America but questions as to how much they hinder a …

Analyses of formal governmental institutions and electoral laws have considerably
advanced our understanding of how politics works in Latin America. However, these …

This article provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the recruitment and selection of
legislative candidates in Latin America. It argues that political recruitment and candidate …

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 …

Intra-party candidate selection processes are one of the prime mechanisms through which
parties organize. This article seeks to examine empirically what factors account for variation …

Previous literature regarding the effects of electoral systems on candidate selection has
implied a false dichotomy regarding proportional representation (PR) versus single member …

Personal representation is an essential element to achieve a high quality of democracy.
Many studies of electoral systems, by focusing on the allocation of seats to parties, have …

Sanctions and homogeneity of intra-party preferences are the two main pathways to party
unity in roll-call votes. However, only a few works have managed to properly measure the …

The main aim of this article is to develop a perspective on the universe of measures for
group representation that goes beyond a narrow focus on gender and ethnicity. The article …