Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective

By Antonella Seddone and Giulia Sandri

Primary elections for choosing party leaders and candidates are now becoming commonplace in Europe, Asia and America but questions as to how much they hinder a party's organizational strength and cohesion or affect electoral performance have largely been ignored outside of the USA. Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective gives a much-needed conceptualization to this topic, describing the function and nature of primary elections and providing a comparative analytical framework to the impact of primaries on the internal and external functioning of political parties.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472450388
• ISBN13: 9781472450388
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"