Book review: The Promise and Challenges of Party Primary Elections: A Comparative Perspective

Nostitz, Felix‐Christopher von

doi:10.1177/1354068819835123

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“…Taken together with other trends, such as increasing party fragmentation, partisan dealignment (Garzia et al, 2022;Musella 2022) and the rise of populism and populist parties (Inglehart and Norris 2016;Muis and Immerzeel 2017;Rooduijn et al, 2019), this literature points to the relevance of studying political leadership generally, and party leaders in particular. Here, several factors are important: the increasing use of direct party leader elections (Cross et al, 2016;Ignazi 2020); the influence of party leaders in the capacity of prime minister (Marland 2020;Musella 2022); the potential influence of party leaders over their parties' policies, candidate selection and party organization (Marino et al, 2021); the media-related focus on leaders (Takens et al, 2015;Aaldering et al, 2018); and the extent to which voters base their electoral decisions on leadership evaluations (Garzia 2017;Ferreira da Silva et al, 2021). While empirically the importance of these trends and factors greatly depend on party and electoral context (Garzia 2019;Marino et al, 2021;Quinlan and McAllister 2022), they nevertheless point to the pertinence of studying party leadership.…”

Section: Careers Party Leaders and Leadership Survivalmentioning

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Accruing career capital: How party leaders with more political experience survive longer

Claessen

2023

Party Politics

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As some of the most experienced political actors, party leaders usually have extensive careers spanning multiple decades, competencies, and institutions. The literature on party leaders, however, has not yet incorporated the wealth of information that these careers have. Therefore, this article introduces career capital as a new continuous measure of political experience and hypothesizes that more career capital leads to longer tenure. In contrast to findings from previous studies, I show that career capital does contribute to party leaders’ survival in office in several analyses of party leader duration in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland in the postwar period (1945–2023). In addition, because career capital is accumulated in three separate institutions, I examine the differences between these descriptively and show in the analysis that especially previous experience in legislative office is conducive for party leaders to remain longer in office. Lastly, the results indicate that the relationship between career capital and party leader duration is non-linear and subject to the effect of attrition, signifying that political experience acquired shortly before entering party leader office is more important for political survival.

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Section: Careers Party Leaders and Leadership Survivalmentioning

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Accruing career capital: How party leaders with more political experience survive longer

Claessen

2023

Party Politics

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“…Yet an increasing number of parties and coalitions around the world employ primaries to choose executive and legislative candidates (Field and Siavelis, 2008). Beyond the United States, a burgeoning number of organizations have recently adopted primaries in contexts as diverse as Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia: between a quarter and a third of prominent parties in democracies utilize primary elections to choose legislative nominees (Cross et al, 2016). This de jure adoption of primaries, however, masks wide de facto variation in how parties and coalitions use them, as many of these elections are uncontested-a single candidate or internal list runs unopposed.…”

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Let the voters decide: Incumbents, opposition, and contested primaries in Argentina

Skigin

2022

Party Politics

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Citizens’ ability to influence public decisions is the hallmark of democracy, and central to this are candidate selection mechanisms. Despite the increasing popularity of primaries across the globe, scholars disagree on how incumbency status shapes primary election contests. To address this question, I exploit an electoral reform in Argentina that forces parties and coalitions to participate in primaries, but allows these to be contested or uncontested. Employing an original data set on federal legislative nominations between 2011 and 2017, I show that internal divisions encourage contested primaries within the opposition, to which district-level rivals strategically respond in kind by fielding multiple internal lists to counter any potential electoral “bonus” others may enjoy from contesting in primaries. Combined with the influence of presidents and governors over selection procedures, these patterns entail that primary races are closely fought within the opposition but trouble-free under incumbency status.

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Book review: The Promise and Challenges of Party Primary Elections: A Comparative Perspective

Cited by 2 publications

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Accruing career capital: How party leaders with more political experience survive longer

Accruing career capital: How party leaders with more political experience survive longer

Let the voters decide: Incumbents, opposition, and contested primaries in Argentina

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