Ascencio, Sergio (2023) Retaining Political Talent: A Candidate-Centered Theory of Primary Adoption. American Journal of Political Science, 68 (3). pp. 1152-1167. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12776
Ascencio, Sergio (2023) Retaining Political Talent: A Candidate-Centered Theory of Primary Adoption. American Journal of Political Science, 68 (3). pp. 1152-1167. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12776
Ascencio, Sergio (2023) Retaining Political Talent: A Candidate-Centered Theory of Primary Adoption. American Journal of Political Science, 68 (3). pp. 1152-1167. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12776
Abstract
Why do party leaders constrain their own power and allow the use of primary elections? I develop a model of intraparty politics and electoral competition in which an ambitious officeseeker reevaluates her party affiliation after her party chooses a nomination rule. The model shows that, in settings in which the linkages between politicians and parties are weak, party leaders adopt primaries in order to keep potential defectors from pursuing their individual ambitions outside of the party. The main theoretical result shows that only parties that are electorally strong ex ante can use primaries as a strategy to hold their parties together. Thus, in contrast to an extensive literature that links the use of primaries to electorally weak parties, this model posits the existence of a positive relationship between the use of primaries and a party's electoral strength. Analysis of legislative and gubernatorial nominations in Mexico provides strong support for the model's expectations.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | candidate selection; endogenous institutional change; Mexico; party switching; primary elections |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Government, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2022 11:27 |
Last Modified: | 16 Jul 2024 17:03 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/33615 |
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