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A peculiar practice: Intra-party democracy and leader selection in Sweden
Södertörns högskola.
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2597-363X
2015 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

There are various reasons to expect Swedish parties to demonstrate a high degree of intra-party democracy. However, data collected by the Political Party Database Working Group suggests that Swedish parties do not actually outperform most other Western democracies in this respect. What is more, we know that Swedish party leaders are chosen in a way that observers in many other countries would regard as profoundly undemocratic. In this paper, we look more closely at this particular aspect of intra-party democracy in Sweden. We describe how the leader-selection process works, focusing on three recent instances. An important objective is to develop a set of fine-grained, qualitative indicators that can be used in cross-national, comparative studies of how parties delegate to their leaders and hold them accountable.

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San Francisco and Gothenburg, 2015.
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Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-25838OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-25838DiVA, id: diva2:851573
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111th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and the Gothenburg Intra-Party Politics Worskhop
Available from: 2015-09-06 Created: 2015-09-06 Last updated: 2018-01-11Bibliographically approved

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