Fraktionen und ihre Parteien in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Veränderte Beziehungen im Zeichen professioneller Politik

Schüttemeyer, Suzanne S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-95072-7_2

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“…However, this has hardly ever been used. In the few cases that have been documented, there is no single instance in which this has led local selectors to change their mind (Schüttemeyer, 1999). Federal parliamentary parties will have to live with their "rebels" as long as they can rely on a well-entrenched local power base.…”

Section: The Formal Rules Of the Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

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Candidate Selection in Germany

Detterbeck

2016

American Behavioral Scientist

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In comparative terms, the strong legal regulation of internal party processes is a specific feature of the German party democracy. Local and regional party conventions are the formal sites of decision making in selecting parliamentary candidates. The national party level is relatively excluded from the procedures. The article argues that the decentralization of intraparty competences has facilitated a gatekeeping role for local and regional party elites. At the constituency level, most often a single candidate is presented to the party convention after he or she has been appointed in the informal preselection activities of local party elites. Gaining a local nomination is the crucial step for obtaining a federal parliamentary mandate, either by winning a direct constituency mandate or being awarded a safe list position. At the regional level, Land party elites are in control of producing balanced party lists. The article also looks at newer developments, such as the introduction of party primaries and gender quotas. It shows that these developments have somehow weakened, but not fundamentally altered, the predominance of subnational party elites in candidate selection.

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Section: The Formal Rules Of the Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additional candidates can come forward and challenge the executive proposal. In these cases, a runoff is held between two or more contenders for a specific position on the list (see Schüttemeyer, 1999).…”

Section: The Next Step: the Regional Balancing Of Party Listsmentioning

confidence: 99%