{"product_id":"party-people-candidates-and-party-evolution-hardcover","title":"Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAllan Sikk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePhilipp Ker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical parties are nothing without their people and candidates are essential to parties' core functions - contesting elections, filling political offices, and shaping policy. Candidates are the literal 'face' of parties, yet they are not wedded to them permanently: candidates can enter or leave politics, switch parties, move along or stay behind when parties split or merge. Even in parties that look stable, candidate change happens below the surface, ultimately altering what the parties stand for. Inspired by evolutionary theories, \u003cem\u003eParty People: Candidates and Party Evolution\u003c\/em\u003e conceptualizes candidates as 'party genes' and develops a candidate-based approach to party evolution. Tracking candidates between elections and parties opens up new perspectives on party development in complex and dynamic settings in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and beyond. Based on a new database of 200,000 electoral candidates from over 60 elections across nine CEE democracies, this book presents a groundbreaking study of party evolution using candidate change as an indicator of party change. Allan Sikk and Philipp Ker offer a series of methodological and conceptual advances for the measurement of candidate turnover, party fission and fusion, programmatic change, and party leadership change; the resulting analyses make a significant contribution to the study of CEE party politics as well as to the general scholarship on elections, parties, and political change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eComparative Politics\u003c\/em\u003e is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterized by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe series is edited by Nicole Bolleyer, Chair of Comparative Political Science, Geschwister Scholl Institut, LMU Munich and Jonathan Slapin, Professor of Political Institutions and European Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllan Sikk, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor in Comparative Politics, University College London\u003c\/em\u003e, Philipp Ker, \u003cem\u003eLecturer and Research Fellow in Comparative Government, Leibniz University Hannover\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAllan Sikk is an Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His research focuses on European electoral and party politics, research methods, and political and social transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. His work has been published in journals including the \u003cem\u003eEuropean Journal of Political Research\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eParty Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, and in edited volumes from Oxford University Press and Routledge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhilipp Ker is a Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science, Leibniz University Hannover. His research focuses on presidential politics, political parties and elections, and comparative constitutional law. He is the author of \u003cem\u003ePresidential Activism and Veto Power in Central and Eastern Europe\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2017) and of contributions to \u003cem\u003eDemocratization\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEast European Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eParty Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eReview of Central and East European Law\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, among others.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 19, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42735841280063,"sku":"9780198868125","price":235.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e5959c6758ca881924bdb404e94575e9.webp?v=1765144870","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/party-people-candidates-and-party-evolution-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}