Add to ORKGThis article examines how political context affects the strategic choice of nomination rules, using data from federal and state-level legislative elections. Our analysis indicates that competition affects the selection rules parties adopt. Overall, parties are most likely to use open selection rules when they think they will win, largely due to the effects of activist competition over coveted nominations. However, state-level party leaders have not been consistently empowered by decentralization. Although state- level party leaders do have nonnegligible influence when it comes to the selection of local legislative nominees, they have more influence in those states that are the most dependent on the federal government for resources. Competit...
Scholars have devoted considerable attention to the consequences of delegate selection rules for pre...
This paper examines theeffect of political competition in localelections in regional allocation of p...
Why do political actors undertake reforms that constrain their own discretion? We argue that uncerta...
We know little about how formerly hegemonic parties react to drastic changes in the external politic...
Abstract: Despite numerous obstacles to the development of a personal vote, individual legislative c...
A growing body of research demonstrates that parties are vital for the health of democracy. While pa...
Why do political actors undertake reforms that constrain their own discretion? We argue that uncerta...
Abstract (120 words): This article fills a gap in the resurgent literature on legislative candidate...
Why do political actors undertake reforms that constrain their own discretion? We argue that uncerta...
A curious aspect of American politics is that while general election rules for Congress and the pres...
Why do political actors undertake reforms that constrain their own discretion? We argue that uncerta...
The literature is still undecided on whether sub-state elections conform more to a national or regio...
Since the end of the twentieth century a broad and persistent movement away from centralized pattern...
This paper discusses the role of electoral institutional design in Mexico’s tran-sition to democracy...
Scholars have devoted considerable attention to the consequences of delegate selection rules for pre...
Scholars have devoted considerable attention to the consequences of delegate selection rules for pre...
This paper examines theeffect of political competition in localelections in regional allocation of p...
Why do political actors undertake reforms that constrain their own discretion? We argue that uncerta...
We know little about how formerly hegemonic parties react to drastic changes in the external politic...
Abstract: Despite numerous obstacles to the development of a personal vote, individual legislative c...
A growing body of research demonstrates that parties are vital for the health of democracy. While pa...
Why do political actors undertake reforms that constrain their own discretion? We argue that uncerta...
Abstract (120 words): This article fills a gap in the resurgent literature on legislative candidate...
Why do political actors undertake reforms that constrain their own discretion? We argue that uncerta...
A curious aspect of American politics is that while general election rules for Congress and the pres...
Why do political actors undertake reforms that constrain their own discretion? We argue that uncerta...
The literature is still undecided on whether sub-state elections conform more to a national or regio...
Since the end of the twentieth century a broad and persistent movement away from centralized pattern...
This paper discusses the role of electoral institutional design in Mexico’s tran-sition to democracy...
Scholars have devoted considerable attention to the consequences of delegate selection rules for pre...
Scholars have devoted considerable attention to the consequences of delegate selection rules for pre...
This paper examines theeffect of political competition in localelections in regional allocation of p...
Why do political actors undertake reforms that constrain their own discretion? We argue that uncerta...