This book examines candidate selection in nine liberal democracies -- Belgium, Britain, France, West Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Norway.

This text presents a new approach to understanding political parties. It sheds light on the inner dynamics of party politics and offers a comprehensive analysis

This book studies the challenges to conventional politics posed by new ways of selecting candidates for legislative elections. The recent economic crisis had pr

Offers an analytic framework to show how the process of candidate selection often limits the participation of women in various Latin American countries

In recent years, political parties and national legislatures in more than one hundred countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to po