The why of candidate selection : which criteria do Belgian green party selectors’ use when choosing candidates? Universiteit Gent
While the knowledge on how candidate selection happens begins to be rather organised, remarkably little attention has been paid to the selection criteria for candidates, “which one might have supposed was central” (King in Stark 1996, 124). Why do selectorates prefer some candidates and put others aside? What drives them? The dearth of knowledge of why some aspirants are chosen over others is puzzling when we consider the growing gap between ...