Party Sovereignty and Citizen Control Selecting Candidates for Parliamentary Elections in Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway
by Narud, Hanne Marthe; Pedersen, Mogens N.; Valen, HenryFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-12-31
Publisher(s): University Press of Southern Denmark
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Summary
The process by which candidates for election are being screened and selected is among the least understood and researched political phenomena, even though this process is so closely linked to the power structure within political parties. In this book, nomination processes in four Nordic countries are analyzed and evaluated as instruments of democracy. The authors compare institutions, procedures and unwritten norms. The book in particular addresses questions about the citizens' ability to influence the nomination processes. The process is not only modeled in traditional terms of representation, but also as a principal-agent relationship.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. 7 |
| Parliamentary Nominations in Western Democracies | |
| Introduction | p. 9 |
| The Process of Nominations | p. 11 |
| The Role of Nominations in the Chain of Parliamentary Delegation | p. 16 |
| Bringing the Perspectives together | p. 19 |
| Research Questions | p. 21 |
| Plan of the Book | p. 25 |
| Denmark: The Interplay of Nominations and Elections in Danish Politics | |
| Introduction | p. 29 |
| The early history of nominations and elections | p. 30 |
| An illustration from the 1998 election | p. 34 |
| The role of the state | p. 37 |
| The role of the parties | p. 38 |
| Who are the candidates? | p. 43 |
| Proper behavior during the electoral campaign | p. 45 |
| The changing role of the voters | p. 47 |
| A special case: the increasing success rate of female candidates | p. 54 |
| Turnover and recruitment | p. 58 |
| Concluding comments | p. 60 |
| Finland: Formalized Procedures with Member Predominance | |
| Introduction | p. 63 |
| The nomination system | p. 65 |
| The role of the party | p. 71 |
| Criteria for candidate selection | p. 78 |
| Sanctions and rewards | p. 92 |
| Conclusions | p. 100 |
| Iceland: From Party Rule to Pluralist Political Society | |
| Introduction | p. 107 |
| The nomination system | p. 110 |
| Sanctions and rewards | p. 138 |
| Nomination method, turnover and main characteristics of MPs: The question of causation | p. 153 |
| Conclusions | p. 161 |
| Norway: Party Dominance and Decentralized Decision-Making | |
| Introduction | p. 169 |
| The new system | p. 174 |
| The organizational process | p. 177 |
| Candidate selection | p. 183 |
| Sanctions and rewards | p. 202 |
| Nominations and the electorate | p. 210 |
| Conclusions | p. 214 |
| Conclusions | |
| The institutional setting | p. 217 |
| How are nominations organized? | p. 218 |
| What are the mechanisms for screening? | p. 219 |
| What is the outcome of the screening process? | p. 222 |
| What is the level of parliamentary turnover? | p. 223 |
| The multi-leveled network of principals and agents | p. 224 |
| Citizen control over candidate selection | p. 226 |
| Notes | p. 229 |
| References | p. 237 |
| Contributors | p. 246 |
| Index | p. 247 |
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