Cartel Parties and Their Selection Procedures
This type of political party is essentially a party built around candidates and so it is self-selecting. This ensures that the party elite control whom they put up for election (usually themselves) and it is considered a very crude form of candidate selection. Although full blown cartel parties are rare, with RESPECT and the Union for French Democracy some isolated examples, many mainstream parties exhibit this type of control over who gets elected.
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