Political Candidate Selection - 9781138039513

Taylor & Francis

Political Candidate SelectionWho Wins, Who Loses, and Under-Representation in the UK\nAuthor(s): Jeanette Ashe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138039513, 978-1138039513\nSynopsis\nThe \""secret garden of politics\"", where some win and others lose their candidate selection bids, and why some aspirant candidates are successful while others fail have been enduring puzzles within political science. This book solves this puzzle by proposing and applying a universally applicable multistage approach to discover the relationship between selection rules, selectors biases, aspirants attributes, and selection outcomes.\n\nRare party and survey data on winning and losing candidates and insider views on what it takes to win a selection contest at multiple selection stages are compared and used to reveal the inner workings of the secret garden. With a primary focus on the British Labour party over several elections, the findin.