Party people : candidates and party evolution /

"Political parties are nothing without their people, and candidates are essential to parties' core functions—contesting elections, filling political offices, and shaping policy. Inspired by evolutionary theories, Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution conceptualizes candidates as ‘pa...

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Main Authors:	Sikk, Allan (Author), Köker, Philipp (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:	Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:	Political candidates > Europe, Central. Political candidates > Europe, Eastern. Political parties > Europe, Central. Political parties > Europe, Eastern. Political party organization > Europe, Central. Political party organization > Europe, Eastern. Candidats (Élections) > Europe centrale. Partis politiques > Organisation > Europe centrale. Partis politiques > Organisation > Europe de l'Est. Candidats (Élections) > Europe de l'Est. Campaigns & Elections. Political Process. POLITICAL SCIENCE. Political Parties. Political candidates Political parties Political party organization Central Europe Eastern Europe Politics & government. Politics and Government. Electronic books.
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Summary:	"Political parties are nothing without their people, and candidates are essential to parties' core functions—contesting elections, filling political offices, and shaping policy. Inspired by evolutionary theories, Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution conceptualizes candidates as ‘party genes' and develops a candidate-based approach to party evolution. Tracking candidates between elections and parties opens up new perspectives on party development in complex and dynamic settings of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and beyond. Based on an original database ‘Electoral Candidates in CEE' (ECCEE) of 200,000 electoral candidates from over sixty elections across nine CEE democracies, this book presents a groundbreaking study of party evolution using candidate change as an indicator of party change. The book offers a series of methodological and conceptual innovations for measuring candidate turnover, party fission and fusion, programmatic change, and party leadership change. Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution makes a significant contribution to the study of CEE party politics as well as to the general scholarship on elections, parties, and political change"--Publisher's description.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xv, 255 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780192638489 0192638483 9780191904660 019190466X