Candidate Selection Procedures in Transitional Polities

Field, Bonnie N.; Siavelis, Peter M.

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“…The answer is not that obvious and political scientists have been referring to political promotions as the "black box" or "secret garden" of politics (Gallagher and Marsh 1988;Field and Siavelis 2008;Hazan and Rahat 2010). Promotions to cabinet or party leadership positions, for example, frequently are considered to be internal matters, and parties may even be reluctant to reveal any details to outsiders.…”

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Rank effects in political promotions

Meriläinen

Tukiainen

2018

Public Choice

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This paper studies the effect of candidates' personal vote ranks on promotions to political power in an open list proportional representation system. Using a regression discontinuity design and data from Finnish local elections, we find that ranking first within a party enhances a politician's chances of getting promoted to the position of a municipal board chair, the most important task in Finnish local politics. Other ranks matter less. We document that the effect of ranking first is larger when there is less within-party competition, but the role of external competition is ambiguous. Our evidence suggests that the mechanism behind the rank effects is primarily unrelated to electoral incentives but rather to party-specific norms or political culture. Ranks seem to be, however, only a complement to other promotion criteria such as politicians' previous political experience or how close to the party lines their policy positions stand.

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Rank effects in political promotions

Meriläinen

Tukiainen

2018

Public Choice

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“…Rather, bargaining with the factions takes up so much time that there simply is no room for other interests to play a part. The case as argued by Field and Siavelis seems to contain more truth: that the forming of strategic alliances and the sharing of legislative seats are crucial to the survival of the party to the extent that inclusiveness based on other factors than faction affiliation is simply not an issue (Field and Siavelis 2008). Also, where factions are built upon existing support systems and form part of clientelist networks, they are less likely to be conducive to women's participation and more likely to promote the male candidates partaking in their networks.…”

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“…Where the political world is not predictable, the decisions become strategically complex with high stakes involved. Thus, in such polities, elites are more likely to control important decisions (Field and Siavelis 2008;see also O'Donnell and Schmitter 1986). That such a selection would favor women, however, hinges on the fact that party elites are at all interested in increasing the number of female candidates.…”

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“…Field and Siavelis claim that candidate selection procedures generally tend to be more vertically centralized in transitional political environments due to a lower level of party organization. Where there is no organized party base, the bargaining power of local actors to make candidate selection procedures more inclusive is rather weak (Field and Siavelis 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment

Bjarnegård

2013

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Series Editors: Johanna Kantola, University of Helsinki, Finland and Judith Squires, University of Bristol, UKThis timely new series publishes leading monographs and edited collections from scholars working in the disciplinary areas of politics, international relations and public policy with specific reference to questions of gender. The series showcases cutting-edge research in Gender and Politics, publishing topical and innovative approaches to gender politics. It will include exciting work from new authors and well-known academics and will also publish high-impact writings by practitioners working in issues relating to gender and politics.The series covers politics, international relations and public policy, including gendered engagement with mainstream political science issues, such as political systems and policymaking, representation and participation, citizenship and identity, equality, and women's movements; gender and international relations, including feminist approaches to international institutions, political economy and global politics; and interdisciplinary and emergent areas of study, such as masculinities studies, gender and multiculturalism, and intersectionality.

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“…First, the Czech Republic is among the countries in Central Europe that were democratised in the early 1990s and thus have relatively brief experience with the electoral system. Most of the theory about recruitment processes and incumbent advantages has been formulated in reference to traditional democracies, mainly the United States, and has only rarely been tested in other contexts [see, e.g., Field and Siavelis 2008]. Second, regional assembly elections in the Czech Republic are based on a proportional electoral system with partially closed party lists.…”

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Incumbency in Multi-Level Political Systems and Recruitment Advantage: The Case of the Czech Regional Assemblies

Bernard¹,

Šafr²

2016

Czech Sociological Review

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Abstract:The article addresses the differential recruitment advantages of individual candidates in regional assembly elections. The authors argue that in a multi-level polity different types of incumbency exist that are refl ected in the recruitment process, favour offi ceholders over newcomers, and at the same time differentiate the accessibility of regional offi ces for offi ceholders at various system levels. Moreover, it is argued that the effect of multi-level incumbency can be well observed even in proportional electoral systems. Empirically, the impact of incumbency on a candidate's chances to succeed in the recruitment process and to obtain preferential votes is analysed using regional assembly elections in the Czech Republic as an example. The authors demonstrate that regional incumbents enjoy by a huge margin advantage during the candidate nomination phase and they are the most favoured group at the ballot followed by national-level politicians and big city mayors.

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Candidate Selection Procedures in Transitional Polities

Cited by 54 publications

References 45 publications

Rank effects in political promotions

Rank effects in political promotions

Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment

Incumbency in Multi-Level Political Systems and Recruitment Advantage: The Case of the Czech Regional Assemblies

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