{"title":"Candidate selection and its behavioral consequences","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102849","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The rules by which parties select their candidates are important, not only because they determine the policy and leaders of a party. Candidate selection, the identity of those taking the final decision (selectorate), has been found to impact the behavior of parliamentarians around the world (e.g. Preece, 2014; Sieberer, 2006). However, there is disagreement among scholars as to which kind of effect we can expect, under which conditions and why. In light of an interesting, previously unstudied case – Switzerland – and on the basis of rich data relating to many different political activities we re-investigate the question of how candidate selection affects the political behavior. Our results indicate that in highly personalized political systems like the Swiss, MPs selected by a more inclusive selectorate do not differ significantly from other MPs in party loyalty but are more likely to engage in some activities that are more visible to their cantonal selectorate.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48188,"journal":{"name":"Electoral Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Electoral Studies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379424001070","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The rules by which parties select their candidates are important, not only because they determine the policy and leaders of a party. Candidate selection, the identity of those taking the final decision (selectorate), has been found to impact the behavior of parliamentarians around the world (e.g. Preece, 2014; Sieberer, 2006). However, there is disagreement among scholars as to which kind of effect we can expect, under which conditions and why. In light of an interesting, previously unstudied case – Switzerland – and on the basis of rich data relating to many different political activities we re-investigate the question of how candidate selection affects the political behavior. Our results indicate that in highly personalized political systems like the Swiss, MPs selected by a more inclusive selectorate do not differ significantly from other MPs in party loyalty but are more likely to engage in some activities that are more visible to their cantonal selectorate.
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Electoral Studies is an international journal covering all aspects of voting, the central act in the democratic process. Political scientists, economists, sociologists, game theorists, geographers, contemporary historians and lawyers have common, and overlapping, interests in what causes voters to act as they do, and the consequences. Electoral Studies provides a forum for these diverse approaches. It publishes fully refereed papers, both theoretical and empirical, on such topics as relationships between votes and seats, and between election outcomes and politicians reactions; historical, sociological, or geographical correlates of voting behaviour; rational choice analysis of political acts, and critiques of such analyses.
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