Candidates, Parties and Voters in the Belgian Partitocracy

Chapter 1 Introduction: Candidates Between Parties and Voters—A Triadic Relationship in the Belgian Partitocracy

Chapter 2 The Effects of the Political Parties’ Selective Bias on Descriptive Representation: Analysis of the Candidates’ Sociological and Political Background

Chapter 3 The More, the Smoother? Candidate Selection and Intraparty Competition

Chapter 4 Who Wins More? Understanding Preferential Voting by Means of Context and Candidates’ Background and Campaigning

Chapter 5 The Puzzle of Personalisation of Politics: Evidence from Candidate Campaigns in Belgium 2007–2014

Chapter 6 Campaigning and Candidates: Different Strategies for Different Candidates

Chapter 7 The Electoral Impact of Local Campaigning in the 2014 Regional and Federal Elections

Chapter 8 Constituting the List Amid Time of Personalisation of Politics: The Balance of Congruent and Popular Candidates in Belgian Political Parties

Chapter 9 Who Do You Feel and What Future Do You Want for Belgium? A Comparison of Candidates and Voters’ Identities and Institutional Preferences

Chapter 10 From More or Less Integration to Status Quo? Explaining Candidates’ and Citizens’ Attitudes Towards European Integration

Chapter 12 Critical Candidates: Elite Attitudes Towards the Functioning of Representative Democracy

Chapter 13 Conclusion: Studying Candidates, Parties and Voters. Lessons Learned and New Questions