Understanding Leadership Profile Renewal

Sandri, Giulia; Seddone, Antonella; Venturino, Fulvio

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198748984.003.0006

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“…The process of intraparty democratization is especially evident regarding leadership selection (Cross and Blais, 2012; Pilet and Cross, 2014) but was also detected in the selection of legislative candidates. A recent study showed that more than 18 parties in 12 countries employed either open or closed primaries to determine their legislative candidates at the national level (Sandri and Seddone, 2015: 10). Another study cautiously estimated that between a quarter to a third of the more prominent parties in democracies make use of primaries to select their legislative candidates (Cross et al, 2016: 47).…”

Section: Campaign Spending In Primary Electionsmentioning

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Candidate spending and success in Israel’s party primaries: How far does money go?

Kenig

Atmor

2019

Party Politics

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The last decade has seen an upswing in and expansion of party primaries as a means of selecting legislative candidates in many parliamentary democracies. Yet, while most democracies around the world regulate the financial aspects of general elections, the same cannot be said for these intraparty contests. The absence of financial regulation in party primaries may explain why the effect of candidate spending on success has received so little attention in the literature. The current study seeks to investigate to what extent candidates’ spending affects their success, focusing on Israel’s legislative primary elections. Although the Israeli Party Law sets expenditure ceilings with the aim of leveling the playing field, there is considerable variance in the amount of money candidates raise, invest, and spend. This variance allows us to test the relationship between candidates’ expenditure and their success. Based on reports by the State Comptroller and on formal results of primary elections, we analyze seven primary contests that were held in three political parties between 2008 and 2015. Candidates’ success is measured in two ways: (1) the number of votes each candidate received, and (2) whether the candidate was elected to parliament. Our findings point to a strong positive correlation between the amount of money spent and the number of votes received. However, when factors such as incumbency and public familiarity are considered, the picture is more nuanced.

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Section: Campaign Spending In Primary Electionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Candidate spending and success in Israel’s party primaries: How far does money go?

Kenig

Atmor

2019

Party Politics

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“…However, parties have reacted to declining membership by increasing members’ opportunities to participate in the decision-making process. In this regard, some parties are becoming a kind of democracy in which, for example, the selection process of leadership is opened to all members (Gauja, 2015; Kittilson and Scarrow, 2006; Sandri and Seddone, 2015). It has been found that the power of party members has grown, particularly among new parties where costs and benefits of party membership are reconfigured (e.g.…”

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Social and ideological representativeness: A comparison of political party members and supporters in Finland after the realignment of major parties

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This study provides a new frame of reference for understanding intraparty dynamics by analyzing party members’ representativeness with respect to party supporters regarding socioeconomic status and the ideological spectrum in a multiparty system, namely that of Finland. The analysis is based on a unique member-based survey of Finland’s six major political parties ( N = 12,427), which is combined with supporter data derived from a nationally representative survey ( N = 1648). The clearest difference was found between supporters’ and members’ social status as members were generally in clearly higher social positions. However, there is a wider gap between parties when comparing supporters and members in terms of social status. Findings show that political opinions on income equality are still a key difference between traditional mass parties at the different levels of party strata, while incongruence within parties is relatively low. In contrast to the traditional parties, the newer parties, namely the Finns and the Greens, are ideologically close to their supporters in terms of attitudes concerning immigration and environment. Together, these findings provide an interesting landscape of the last decade’s changes in the Finnish political spectrum and contribute to the ongoing discussion on the changing forms of political parties.

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“…One of the areas of competition within parties is candidate selection methods, which have been the focus of study in the last two decades (Rahat & Hazan 2001;Sandri, Seddone, & Venturino, 2015;Cross et al 2016). Parties adopt a specific method for choosing candidates for a variety of reasons: 1) it is required by law, 2) they want to increase their votes, 3) it is part of the party's ideology and 4) the size of the party (Hazan & Rahat 2010;Put et al 2016).…”

Section: Candidate Selection Methods: the Effect Of The Primariesmentioning

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Candidate Selection Methods, Cooperation and Legislative Effectiveness

Akirav¹

2018

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This study investigates whether differences in candidate selection methods and/or the changes in the Israeli political system affect cooperation between parliament members and whether such cooperation explains legislative effectiveness. To examine these issues, we discuss different types of cooperative strategies using a scale we devised that defines three options for cooperation: 1) uncooperative, 2) cooperation within the party and 3) cooperation between parties. Then, we categorize the various methods that Israeli political parties have used to select their candidates since the establishment of the state, creating four categories of a variable we call the effect of the primaries. Additionally, we consider differences in four periods of changes in the Israeli party system. Finally, we assess the results of cooperation in light of our dependent variable, legislative effectiveness, using data from 1949 to 2015. Our findings indicate that the majority of bills passed without cooperation, but when cooperative strategies were used, they usually involved inter-party rather than intra-party support. Furthermore, the adoption of primaries reduced the probability of passing bills. In addition, when one party was dominant, 68% of the representatives initiated legislation alone, while during the multi-polar fragmented period 41.9% cooperated with legislators from other parties.

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Understanding Leadership Profile Renewal

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Candidate spending and success in Israel’s party primaries: How far does money go?

Candidate spending and success in Israel’s party primaries: How far does money go?

Social and ideological representativeness: A comparison of political party members and supporters in Finland after the realignment of major parties

Candidate Selection Methods, Cooperation and Legislative Effectiveness

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