Overview
- Presents empirical evidence on the selection of candidates of immigrant background
- Analyzes the thresholds candidates of immigrant background need to overcome to run for legislative office
- Offers insights on how political parties can select candidates of immigrant origin
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Electoral Politics (SSEP)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Although Germany’s ethnic diversity is on a steady rise, citizens of immigrant origin remain descriptively underrepresented. Despite the pivotal role the intra-party candidate selection plays in shaping who runs for election, the question of how candidates of immigrant background fare in political parties’ candidate selection in comparison to native-born candidates remained a blind spot of research. Therefore, the author presents in-depth empirical evidence on the selection of candidates of immigrant background in German political parties.
The book addresses scholars of political science interested in electoral studiesas well as policy-makers and party officials interested in a balanced representation of their political representatives.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How German Parties Select Candidates of Immigrant Origin
Book Subtitle: Neutrality, Opening or Closure?
Authors: Sara Ceyhan
Series Title: Springer Series in Electoral Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59451-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59450-3Published: 01 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59453-4Published: 02 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59451-0Published: 31 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-8103
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8111
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 255
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations
Topics: Electoral Politics, Comparative Politics, European Politics