Candidate Selection in Ireland: The Impact of Localism and the Electoral System
- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Political Science
- Vol. 10 (4) , 489-503
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123400002350
Abstract
Although the selection of candidates for elections to the national parliament is an important part of the political process, there is little writing on the way in which this is carried out in the Republic of Ireland. This no doubt springs largely from parties' reluctance to reveal details of this essentially internal matter. In Duverger's words, ‘parties do not like the odours of the electoral kitchen to spread to the outside world’.Keywords
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