Publication details
A New Game in Town: Party Primaries in Romania and Slovakia
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper comparatively analyzes the causes and consequences of primary election for candidate selection for the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (SDKU-DS). While PSD used the primaries for the legislative elections only once and SDKU-DS only twice, their logic and dynamic was completely different. We focus on two main components of primary elections: the features of the internal election processes and their impacts on parties both in terms of internal participation (membership appeal) and structures (leadership - membership relations) and of external electoral performance in subsequent general elections. As both parties used primaries when voting took place on list PR the territorial basis for our analysis is the country level. |