This book provides a cross-country study of the consequences of the expansion of intra-party democracy, the trend towards more inclusive methods of selection for party candidates and leaders, and the impact of these on political elites in terms of socio-political profile and patterns of careers.

Giulia Sandri is Associate Professor at the European School of Political and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Lille, France.

Antonella Seddone is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin, Italy.

1. Intra-party selection methods and political elites: new trends and consequences 2. Choosing party leaders in Italy between personalization and democratization 3. Playing with fire? The organizational consequences of party primaries in Spain 4. The outcomes of party primaries: (Dis)continuity in top candidates' political and partisan profiles 5. Candidate selection, personalization of politics, and political careers: Insights from Italy 6. Impact of intraparty democracy on patterns of political career within Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement: PASOK in Greece 7. The effect of introducing primaries on the profiles of candidates in the Turkish context: The local experiences of candidates 8. Do candidate selection modes matter for the gender diversity within political elites? Evidence from the Belgian case in 2014 9. The use of primaries for the selection of party leaders in the UK Conservative and Labour parties: Formal rules and ideological congruence 10. Do different candidate selection methods produce different types of candidates? An analysis of the German case 11. The 'Belle Époque' of French primary. The evolution of the national and local framework of candidate selection 12. Political elites and party primaries