Democratizing Candidate Selection

Guillermo Cordero is Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. His publications include a number of books, chapters and journal articles on candidate selection, electoral behaviour and political attitudes.  Xavier Coller is Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain. He has authored or co-authored over a hundred works on social theories, research methods, collective identities, political elites, and complex organizations.

• Section I: New modes of candidate selection.- 1. Lights and Shades of Democratizing Candidate Selection; Guillermo Cordero and Xavier Coller.- 2. The Challenges of Inclusive Intra-Party Selection Methods; Ofer Kenig and Scott Pruysers.- 3. Selecting Presidential Candidates in European Semi-Presidential Democracies; Cristina Boccur and Bonnie N. Field.- Section II: Internet, new politics and selection of candidates.- 4. Intra-party Democracy and Internet: The case of NEOS in Austria; Marcelo Jenny.- 5. Selecting Candidates Online in Europe. A comparison among the cases of M5S, Podemos, and European Green Party; Maria Elisabetta and Stefano Rombi.- 6. New Wine in Old Bottles? The Selection of Electoral Candidates in General Elections in Podemos; Santiago Pérez Nievas, José Rama and Carlos Fernández-Esquer.- 7. MPs of Traditional Parties’ Perceptions on Candidate Selection in Times of Political Crisis and Reform; Manuel Jiménez-Sánchez, Xavier Coller and Manuel Portillo-Pérez.- Section III: Consequences of new modes of candidate selection on politics.- 8. The Socio-Political Profile of Parliamentary Representatives in Greece, Italy and Spain before and after the ‘Eurocrisis': A Comparative Empirical Assessment; Manina Kakepaki, Fani Kountouri, Luca Verzichelli and Xavier Coller.- 9. Gender Representation in Wales: New Approaches to Candidate Selection in UK’s Devolved Legislatures and Beyond; Diana Stirbu, Jac Larner and Laura McAllister.- 10. The Selection of Candidates and its Impact on Parliamentary Behavior. Insights from the Italian Case; Stefano Rombi and Antonella Seddone.- 11. Selection and Party Discipline: A Comparative Perspective; Xavier Coller, Guillermo Cordero, Antonio M. Jaime-Castillo and Patrik Öhberg.- 12. Conclusions; Xavier Coller and Guillermo Cordero.