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Managed Intra-Party Democracy: Precursory Delegation and Party Leader Selection
Södertörns högskola.
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2597-363X
2017 (English)In: Party Politics, ISSN 1354-0688, E-ISSN 1460-3683, Vol. 23, no 1, p. 55-65Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The question of how party leaders are selected has recently, and belatedly, come under systematic comparative scrutiny. If it is the location of intra-party power that interests us, however, it might be that some of the more observable indicators in such processes, such as the identity of the selectorate, are not actually the most revealing ones. Using a delegation perspective, we thus present a framework for analysing prior steps in leader selection and relate it to various ideal-typical constellations of intra-party power. The framework encompasses, first, what we call precursory delegation, with focus especially on an agent that, formally or informally, manages the selection process before it reaches the selectorate. Second, the framework takes account of the degree to which the process is managed rather than left open to free competition between leader candidates. We illustrate the framework primarily with instances of leader selection in two Swedish parties.

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2017. Vol. 23, no 1, p. 55-65
Keywords [en]
delegation, intra-party democracy, leaders, management, Sweden
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Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-27748DOI: 10.1177/1354068816655569ISI: 000391801800006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85008692954OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-27748DiVA, id: diva2:930090
Available from: 2016-05-22 Created: 2016-05-22 Last updated: 2018-01-10Bibliographically approved

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