Overview
- Sheds considerable light on contemporary debates about intra-party democracy
- Questions perceptions of party change through a comparative study of leader selection in nine European countries
- Suggests a classification of leader selection that focuses less on the selectorate, and more on the prior steps in the process
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership (PSPL)
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This book explores the varying ways in which political parties in Europe make arguably their most important decisions: the selection of their leaders. The choice shapes the representation of a party externally. It also influences the management of internal conflict, because there will always be some disagreement about the party’s direction. The rules of selection will naturally affect the outcome. Yet there is more to it than rules. Sometimes the process is open and fiercely contested. Sometimes the field of potential leaders is filtered even before the decision reaches the selectorate – the organ that, according to party statutes, formally makes the appointment. The selectorate might have only a single candidate to ratify, a so-called ‘coronation’. The book presents a framework for analysing both the formal and informal sides of leader selection, and hones the framework through its application in a series of case studies from nine European countries.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nicholas Aylott is Associate Professor of Political Science at Södertörn University, Sweden. He specialises in comparative politics, with a particular focus on political parties. He is co-author of Parties in Multi-Level Polities: The Nordic Countries Compared (2013) and has published in such journals as the European Journal of Political Research and Party Politics.
Niklas Bolin is Associate Professor of Political Science at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. His main research interests are parties and elections, particularly organisation, leadership, intra-party democracy, radical right parties and green parties. He has published in journals including Party Politics, Scandinavian Political Studies and West European Politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Leader Selection in European Political Parties
Editors: Nicholas Aylott, Niklas Bolin
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55000-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54999-2Published: 19 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55002-8Published: 19 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55000-4Published: 18 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-5821
Series E-ISSN: 2947-583X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 254
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Leadership, European Politics, Comparative Politics