Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties

A Comparative Perspective

Lieven De Winter (ISPOLE, Belgium), Rune Karlsen (University of Oslo, Norway), Hermann Schmitt (University of Mannheim, Germany)

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Routledge
09 January 2023

Elections & referenda; Political parties

Series: Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites

This book offers the first comprehensive, comparative and coherent perspective on parliamentary candidates in contemporary representative democracy.

Based on the unique database of the ‘Comparative Candidate Survey' project which interrogated parliamentary candidates in more than 30 countries, it fills a significant lacuna by focusing on the thousands of ordinary candidates that participate in national elections. It examines who the candidates are in terms of their socio-demographic background and political career patterns, how they were selected by their parties, what their policy preference are and whether these are congruent to those held by their voters, who they seek to represent and how they intend to do so once elected, and what their visions are on representative democracy and party government. Last but not least, it investigates how they go about reaching out to their potential voters during the election campaign.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party politics, political elites, political communication, political participation, elections, theories of democracy and representation, legislative studies, voting behaviour and more broadly to European politics, as well as to political and policy professionals throughout Europe.

Edited by: Lieven De Winter (ISPOLE Belgium), Rune Karlsen (University of Oslo, Norway), Hermann Schmitt (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9780367607715
ISBN 10: 0367607719
Series: Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 09 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lieven De Winter is Emeritus Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Rune Karlsen is Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, Norway. Hermann Schmitt is an Emeritus Professor in Electoral Politics at the University of Manchester, UK, a Research fellow of the MZES and Professor at the University of Mannheim, Germany.