caa a22 4500 606168273 CHVBK 20210128100706.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11127-015-0249-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11127-015-0249-8 Primaries: the unifying force [Elektronische Daten] [Rafael Hortala-Vallve, Hannes Mueller] We present a formal model of intra-party politics to explain candidate selection within political parties. We think of parties as heterogeneous groups of individuals who aim to implement a set of policies but who differ in their priorities. When party heterogeneity is too great, parties are in danger of splitting into smaller yet more homogeneous political groups. In this context we argue that primaries can have a unifying role if the party elite cannot commit to policy concessions. Our model shows how three factors interact to create incentives for the adoption of primary elections, namely (1) the alignment in the preferred policies of various factions within a party, (2) the relative weight of each of these factions and (3) the electoral system. We discuss the existing empirical literature and demonstrate how existing studies can be improved in light of our theoretical predictions to provide a new, structured perspective on the adoption of primary elections. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Political parties nationallicence Primaries nationallicence Candidate selection nationallicence Hortala-Vallve Rafael Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK aut Mueller Hannes Institut d'Analisi Economica (CSIC), Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain aut Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/3-4(2015-06-01), 289-305 0048-5829 163:3-4<289 2015 163 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0249-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0249-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hortala-Vallve Rafael Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mueller Hannes Institut d'Analisi Economica (CSIC), Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/3-4(2015-06-01), 289-305 0048-5829 163:3-4<289 2015 163 11127