This is one of the empirical chapters of a book trying to explore in different institutional contexts and under a comparative perspective two main components of primary elections: the features of the internal election processes and their impacts on parties both in terms of internal participation (membership appeal) and structures (leadership-membership relations) and of external electoral performance in subsequent general elections.
The chapter is structured as follows:
a) Which are the contextual factors that lead parties to use inclusive procedures to select their leaders?
b) Which are the main features of the primary election processes (in terms of formal rules, campaign, participation and competition)?
c) Which is the impact of such processes on parties in terms of electoral performances, of membership appeal, of internal organizational change?
