01870     2200217   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036007000300056008003900059020001800098082001000116084001600126100005600142245014900198250001600347260003700363300001000400500017500410650011100585520095600696INLIS00000000001104720240402011936  a0010-0424000002ta240402                |          | |    a9780429284700  a324.2  a324.2 PAR p0 aParliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties1 aParliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties :ba comparative perspective /cedited by Lieven De Winter, Rune Karlsen and Hermann Schmitt  a1st Edition  aNew York, NY :bRoutledge,c2020  a258 p  a<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780429284700/parliamentary-candidates-voters-parties-lieven-de-winter-rune-karlsen-hermann-schmitt?">e-book</a> 4aPolitical candidates--Western countries--Case studies. Political parties--Western countries--Case studies.  aABSTRACT
This book offers the first comprehensive, comparative and coherent perspective on parliamentary candidates in contemporary representative democracy.

Based on the unique database of the ‘Comparative Candidate Survey' project which interrogated parliamentary candidates in more than 30 countries, it fills a significant lacuna by focusing on the thousands of ordinary candidates that participate in national elections. It examines who the candidates are in terms of their socio-demographic background and political career patterns, how they were selected by their parties, what their policy preference are and whether these are congruent to those held by their voters, who they seek to represent and how they intend to do so once elected, and what their visions are on representative democracy and party government. Last but not least, it investigates how they go about reaching out to their potential voters during the election campaign.