When Do Strong Parties "Throw the Bums Out"? Competition and Accountability in South African Candidate Nominations
Abstract Existing accounts of centralized candidate selection argue that party elites tend to ignore constituent preferences in favor of internal party concerns, leading to accountability deficits. Yet this claim has been largely assumed rather than demonstrated. We provide the first detailed empiri...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer US,
2022-01-20T18:42:36Z.
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