{"title":"The Occasional Democratisation of Party Leadership Selection: A Mechanism-Centred Approach","authors":"Anne Küppers","doi":"10.1007/s11615-023-00487-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-023-00487-x","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Membership ballots have gained increasing popularity for party leadership selection around the globe. Still, our understanding of why parties use primaries is limited. This is due to two shortcomings of existing research: First, previous research has failed to satisfactorily operationalise subjective concepts such as electoral defeat. Second, quantitative studies cannot account for causal complexity. Thus, to uncover the puzzle of why parties use party primaries, this article pursues a novel approach. I offer new insights by using theory-testing process tracing to uncover the complex causal mechanisms that explain the use of membership ballots, taking Germany as an example. In the four cases studied, I find that it is a combination of an electoral shock, internal conflict, and instrumental motives that explain the decision to hold a primary for party leadership selection.","PeriodicalId":45529,"journal":{"name":"Politische Vierteljahresschrift","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135980512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Riddervold, Marianne, Jarle Trondal, und Akasemi Newsome (Hrsg.) (2021): The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises","authors":"Henrik Scheller","doi":"10.1007/s11615-023-00498-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-023-00498-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45529,"journal":{"name":"Politische Vierteljahresschrift","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carls, Paul (2022): Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany. A Study in Moral Conflict","authors":"Simon Bein","doi":"10.1007/s11615-023-00496-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-023-00496-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45529,"journal":{"name":"Politische Vierteljahresschrift","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135982198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reichwein, Alexander (2021): Hans J. Morgenthau und die Twenty Yearsʼ Crisis. Das realistische Denken eines Emigranten im Lichte seines deutschen Erfahrungshintergrundes","authors":"Felix Rösch","doi":"10.1007/s11615-023-00494-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-023-00494-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45529,"journal":{"name":"Politische Vierteljahresschrift","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135982199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heath, Joseph (2022): Cooperation and Social Justice","authors":"Ruth Zimmerling","doi":"10.1007/s11615-023-00489-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-023-00489-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45529,"journal":{"name":"Politische Vierteljahresschrift","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135980513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Münch, Richard (2022): Die Herrschaft der Inzidenzen und Evidenzen. Regieren in den Fallstricken des Szientismus","authors":"Jörn Knobloch","doi":"10.1007/s11615-023-00499-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-023-00499-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45529,"journal":{"name":"Politische Vierteljahresschrift","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135982368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ohnesorge, Hendrik W., und Xuewu Gu (Hrsg.) (2022): Weltpolitische Gestaltung in Zeiten von COVID-19. Zur Rolle von Persönlichkeit und Führungsstil in der Coronakrise","authors":"Marco Bitschnau","doi":"10.1007/s11615-023-00495-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-023-00495-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45529,"journal":{"name":"Politische Vierteljahresschrift","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}