00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000011047 20240402011936 0010-0424000002 ta 240402################|##########|#|## 9780429284700 324.2 324.2 PAR p Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties : a comparative perspective / edited by Lieven De Winter, Rune Karlsen and Hermann Schmitt 1st Edition New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 258 p <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> Political candidates--Western countries--Case studies. Political parties--Western countries--Case studies. ABSTRACT 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.