Abstract
This is a book about the effects of Intra-Party Democracy (IPD) practices on candidate selection. The book begins with a discussion of primaries and its extension to semi-presidential democracies, and then it turns to four usually uncovered and relevant topics on the effects of implementing inclusive methods on candidate selection—the use of the Internet and its potential to foster or undermine oligarchic tensions in parties; the analysis of MPs discourses about how they were selected and how selection should be changed; the effects of different methods of candidate selection on the social profile of MPs; and the impact of candidate selection on discipline in parliamentary behavior. Taken together, all these chapters touch upon several corners of Michels’ Iron Law of Oligarchy qualifying or reinforcing it.
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