Party Sovereignty and Citizen Control: Selecting Candidates for Parliamentary Elections in Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway

Scandinavian Review, Autumn 2003

Party Sovereignty and Citizen Control: Selecting Candidates for Parliamentary Elections in Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway Edited by Hanne Marthe Narud, Mogens N. Pedersen and Henry Valen University Press of Southern Denmark, 2002 254 pages, softcover $30.00

The process by which candidates for election are screened and selected is among the least understood and researched political phenomena, even though it is so closely linked to the power structure within political parties. This book analyzes and evaluates these processes within the four subject countries. Despite great institutional similarities, the nomination processes and their outcomes are found to vary considerably across the four countries.