Giulia Sandri
Dr. Giulia Sandri is Associate Professor of Political Science at the European School of Political Science of the Catholic University of Lille (http://www.espol-lille.eu/). Giulia holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She previously worked as Research Fellow at Christ Church and at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford. Se also worked as research assistant on different research projects at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and then at ULB (mainly on political participation, representation and also on sub-national democracy in the European Union). Her doctoral dissertation, directed by Prof. Pascal Delwit and entitled “Intra-party democracy and political activism: a comparative analysis of attitudes and behaviors of grass-roots party members”, analyzed the impact of perceived roles and party organizational changes on members’ internal mobilization, loyalty and political attitudes through original survey data in three parties (UK Labour party, Belgian Socialist party and Italian Democratic party).
She is currently collaborating, since 2007, to the research project “PARTIREP - Changing Patterns of Participation and Representation in Contemporary Democracies” (www.partirep.eu) directed by Prof. Kris Deschouwer (VUB, Belgium). She is also currently collaborating to other research projects, among which the international project “MAPP – Members and Activists of Political Parties”, (http://www.projectmapp.eu/) coordinated by Emilie van Haute (ULB) on cross-national comparative surveys on party members. She is also collaborating with the Standing Group on Candidate and Leadership Selection of the Italian Political Science Association (http://www.candidateandleaderselection.eu/) to the systematic data collection on national, regional and local primary elections in Italy (surveys, focus groups and aggregate electoral data). She recently published in Politics and Policy, Acta Politica, Comparative European Politics, Religion, State and Society , Ethnopolitics and Regional and Federal Studies.
Her main research interests are party politics, primary elections, political behavior, and quality of democracy, ethno-regional parties and regional elections.
She is also co-convenor of the "Primaries In Comparative Perspective" research project network, which is supported by the ECPR Standing Group on Political Parties (coordinated by Prof. Richard Luther): http://ecprsgpp.wordpress.com/current-major-projects/ .
She is currently working on a comparative research project on the consequences of primary elections in Europe.
Project abstract: Primary elections for choosing party leaders and candidates are becoming usual events for European parties. The aim of the project is to describe the nature and functioning of primary elections (open and closed) in Europe and to provide a comparative analytical framework for clarifying the consequences of primaries on the internal and external functioning of political parties. This framework will be elaborated on the basis of the analytical tools developed for studying the American experience, which will be explored and adapted to the European declination of primary elections. The two research questions of the study are the following: to what extent primaries affect negatively the electoral performance of parties within European contexts? To what extent primaries represent a factor hindering party's organizational strength and cohesion? The study takes as main unit of analysis individual parties and their organizational features. The project is articulated into two different steps. The first step deals with the identification of my case studies thought the establishment of a comparative dataset exploring the nature and type of primary elections adopted by parliamentary parties in the 27 EU Members States since the 1970s. In the second step of the study I develop an analytical framework for explaining the impact of primaries on political parties. The framework looks at both organizational aspects and electoral ones. Thus, four different dimensions will be analyzed: factionalism, leadership type and autonomy, candidate autonomy and electoral performance of the party. I use macro-statistical methods to determine the association between the features of primary elections and the indicators elaborated on the basis of US literature on the selected case studies.
Phone: 00322484673959
Address: Dr. Giulia Sandri
ESPOL-Ecole Européenne de Sciences Politiques et Sociales/
European School of Political and Social Sciences
Université Catholique de Lille
60 boulevard Vauban - BP 109
F-59016 Lille Cedex
+33 (0)359315056
[email protected]
http://www.espol-lille.eu/
She is currently collaborating, since 2007, to the research project “PARTIREP - Changing Patterns of Participation and Representation in Contemporary Democracies” (www.partirep.eu) directed by Prof. Kris Deschouwer (VUB, Belgium). She is also currently collaborating to other research projects, among which the international project “MAPP – Members and Activists of Political Parties”, (http://www.projectmapp.eu/) coordinated by Emilie van Haute (ULB) on cross-national comparative surveys on party members. She is also collaborating with the Standing Group on Candidate and Leadership Selection of the Italian Political Science Association (http://www.candidateandleaderselection.eu/) to the systematic data collection on national, regional and local primary elections in Italy (surveys, focus groups and aggregate electoral data). She recently published in Politics and Policy, Acta Politica, Comparative European Politics, Religion, State and Society , Ethnopolitics and Regional and Federal Studies.
Her main research interests are party politics, primary elections, political behavior, and quality of democracy, ethno-regional parties and regional elections.
She is also co-convenor of the "Primaries In Comparative Perspective" research project network, which is supported by the ECPR Standing Group on Political Parties (coordinated by Prof. Richard Luther): http://ecprsgpp.wordpress.com/current-major-projects/ .
She is currently working on a comparative research project on the consequences of primary elections in Europe.
Project abstract: Primary elections for choosing party leaders and candidates are becoming usual events for European parties. The aim of the project is to describe the nature and functioning of primary elections (open and closed) in Europe and to provide a comparative analytical framework for clarifying the consequences of primaries on the internal and external functioning of political parties. This framework will be elaborated on the basis of the analytical tools developed for studying the American experience, which will be explored and adapted to the European declination of primary elections. The two research questions of the study are the following: to what extent primaries affect negatively the electoral performance of parties within European contexts? To what extent primaries represent a factor hindering party's organizational strength and cohesion? The study takes as main unit of analysis individual parties and their organizational features. The project is articulated into two different steps. The first step deals with the identification of my case studies thought the establishment of a comparative dataset exploring the nature and type of primary elections adopted by parliamentary parties in the 27 EU Members States since the 1970s. In the second step of the study I develop an analytical framework for explaining the impact of primaries on political parties. The framework looks at both organizational aspects and electoral ones. Thus, four different dimensions will be analyzed: factionalism, leadership type and autonomy, candidate autonomy and electoral performance of the party. I use macro-statistical methods to determine the association between the features of primary elections and the indicators elaborated on the basis of US literature on the selected case studies.
Phone: 00322484673959
Address: Dr. Giulia Sandri
ESPOL-Ecole Européenne de Sciences Politiques et Sociales/
European School of Political and Social Sciences
Université Catholique de Lille
60 boulevard Vauban - BP 109
F-59016 Lille Cedex
+33 (0)359315056
[email protected]
http://www.espol-lille.eu/
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Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective gives a much-needed conceptualization to this topic, describing the function and nature of primary elections and providing a comparative analytical framework to the impact of primaries on the internal and external functioning of political parties. Elaborating on the analytical tools developed to study the US experience this framework engages with primary elections in Europe and Asia offering a theoretical, comparative and empirical account of the emergence of party primaries and an invaluable guide to internal electoral processes and their impact.Contents: Introduction: primary elections across the world, Giulia Sandri and Antonella Seddone; Leadership selection versus candidate selection: similarities and differences, Ofer Kenig, Gideon Rahat and Reuven Y. Hazan; The American experience of primary elections in comparative perspective, Alan Ware; Democratising party leadership selection in Spain and Portugal, Oscar Barberà, Marco Lisi and Juan Rodríguez-Teruel; Democratising party leadership selection in Belgium and Israel, Bram Wauters, Gideon Rahat and Ofer Kenig; Democratising party leadership selection in Japan and Taiwan, Yohei Narita, Ryo Nakai and Keiichi Kubo; Democratising candidate selection in Italy and France, Marino De Luca and Fulvio Venturino; Democratising candidate selection in Romania and Slovakia, Sergiu Gherghina and Peter Spáč; Democratising candidate selection in Iceland, Indridi H. Indriðason and Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson; Conclusion, Giulia Sandri, Antonella Seddone and Fulvio Venturino; Bibliography; Index.
Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective gives a much-needed conceptualization to this topic describing the function and nature of primary elections and providing a comparative analytical framework to the impact of primaries on the internal and external functioning of political parties. Elaborating on the analytical tools developed to study the US experience this framework engages with primary elections in Europe and Asia offering a theoretical, comparative and empirical account of the emergence of party primaries and an invaluable guide to internal electoral processes and their impact.
Papers by Giulia Sandri
Notre papier se propose donc de se pencher de façon tant empirique que théorique sur cette question et d’explorer en particulier les profils, attitudes et motivations des deux groupes de participants aux primaires ouvertes, les adhérents et les votants/sympathisants. Cette réflexion nous amène aux questionnements suivants: qui sont les participants aux primaires? Est-ce que la sociologie électorale des votants diffère de celle des adhérents de partis ? De plus, la littérature américaine a montré l’existence d’un lien entre le caractère inclusif des procédures de sélection des candidats et le positionnement idéologique des votants (Norrander, 1989 ; Kaufmann et al., 2005). Les votants aux primaires semblent être idéologiquement plus polarisés que l’électorat général mais moins que les adhérents de parti.
Toutefois, la nature de cette relation est plutôt controversée. D’ailleurs, les différences entre adhérents et votants/sympathisants seront explorées non seulement en termes de profil sociodémographique et politique, mais aussi en termes de comportement et de motivations de vote. Afin d’explorer empiriquement ces questionnements et les hypothèses formulées par la littérature américaine nous nous focalisons sur un cas d’étude spécifique, c’est-à-dire les partis de gauche en Italie et le Parti Démocrate plus spécifiquement. Ce parti a utilisé des primaires ouvertes pour désigner son leader et sélectionner les candidats aux élections depuis sa fondation en 2007. Nous développerons nos analyses à partir d’une base de données empirique originale élaborée sur base de données d’enquête ‘sortie des urnes’ lors des élections primaires de 2012 pour désigner le candidat premier ministre de la coalition de centre-gauche guidée par le PD et lors des élections primaires de 2013 pour sélectionner le leader du PD.
Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective gives a much-needed conceptualization to this topic, describing the function and nature of primary elections and providing a comparative analytical framework to the impact of primaries on the internal and external functioning of political parties. Elaborating on the analytical tools developed to study the US experience this framework engages with primary elections in Europe and Asia offering a theoretical, comparative and empirical account of the emergence of party primaries and an invaluable guide to internal electoral processes and their impact.Contents: Introduction: primary elections across the world, Giulia Sandri and Antonella Seddone; Leadership selection versus candidate selection: similarities and differences, Ofer Kenig, Gideon Rahat and Reuven Y. Hazan; The American experience of primary elections in comparative perspective, Alan Ware; Democratising party leadership selection in Spain and Portugal, Oscar Barberà, Marco Lisi and Juan Rodríguez-Teruel; Democratising party leadership selection in Belgium and Israel, Bram Wauters, Gideon Rahat and Ofer Kenig; Democratising party leadership selection in Japan and Taiwan, Yohei Narita, Ryo Nakai and Keiichi Kubo; Democratising candidate selection in Italy and France, Marino De Luca and Fulvio Venturino; Democratising candidate selection in Romania and Slovakia, Sergiu Gherghina and Peter Spáč; Democratising candidate selection in Iceland, Indridi H. Indriðason and Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson; Conclusion, Giulia Sandri, Antonella Seddone and Fulvio Venturino; Bibliography; Index.
Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective gives a much-needed conceptualization to this topic describing the function and nature of primary elections and providing a comparative analytical framework to the impact of primaries on the internal and external functioning of political parties. Elaborating on the analytical tools developed to study the US experience this framework engages with primary elections in Europe and Asia offering a theoretical, comparative and empirical account of the emergence of party primaries and an invaluable guide to internal electoral processes and their impact.
Notre papier se propose donc de se pencher de façon tant empirique que théorique sur cette question et d’explorer en particulier les profils, attitudes et motivations des deux groupes de participants aux primaires ouvertes, les adhérents et les votants/sympathisants. Cette réflexion nous amène aux questionnements suivants: qui sont les participants aux primaires? Est-ce que la sociologie électorale des votants diffère de celle des adhérents de partis ? De plus, la littérature américaine a montré l’existence d’un lien entre le caractère inclusif des procédures de sélection des candidats et le positionnement idéologique des votants (Norrander, 1989 ; Kaufmann et al., 2005). Les votants aux primaires semblent être idéologiquement plus polarisés que l’électorat général mais moins que les adhérents de parti.
Toutefois, la nature de cette relation est plutôt controversée. D’ailleurs, les différences entre adhérents et votants/sympathisants seront explorées non seulement en termes de profil sociodémographique et politique, mais aussi en termes de comportement et de motivations de vote. Afin d’explorer empiriquement ces questionnements et les hypothèses formulées par la littérature américaine nous nous focalisons sur un cas d’étude spécifique, c’est-à-dire les partis de gauche en Italie et le Parti Démocrate plus spécifiquement. Ce parti a utilisé des primaires ouvertes pour désigner son leader et sélectionner les candidats aux élections depuis sa fondation en 2007. Nous développerons nos analyses à partir d’une base de données empirique originale élaborée sur base de données d’enquête ‘sortie des urnes’ lors des élections primaires de 2012 pour désigner le candidat premier ministre de la coalition de centre-gauche guidée par le PD et lors des élections primaires de 2013 pour sélectionner le leader du PD.