Candidate and Leader Selection - C&LS

I am a member of Candidate and Leader Selection research network - formely PRIMES (Primary Electoral Studies) - since its foundation in 2006.
The network then evolved and established as a SISP Standing Group.
As the Standing group states:
C&LS "pays specific attention to the rules, competition, and consequences of the so-called primary elections, where party members or party sympathizers and voters are allowed to select party leaders and candidates for elections.
Among its activities, the Standing Group has carried out extensive research on primary elections, e.g., by producing exit polls for all the Partito Democratico (PD) leader selections since 2007 onwards."

Scientific publications linked to this project:

S. Bolgherini, F. Trastulli (2023), Voglia di sinistra: la collocazione sullo spettro politico, in S. Grimaldi/F. Venturino (a cura di), Un nuovo inizio? Il Partito Democratico e l’elezione di Elly Schlein, Padova, Padova University Press, pp. 75-88 ISBN: 978-88-6938-371-7 (EN: Left-wish: the left-right collocation of the electorate at the Italian Democratic Party’s primaries)

S. Bolgherini (2017) [Book review] Primarie e sindaci in Italia. Politica locale e democrazia intrapartitica, 2004-2015 by F. Venturino, in Contemporary Italian Politics [ISSN: 2324-8823, Online ISSN: 2324-8831], DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2017.1339936

S. Bolgherini (2016), "Primarie/Vorwahlen" pp. 728-730, in Bruetting R., Rauen B. (eds.), Italien-Lexikon, Berlin, Erich Schmidt Verlag 

S. Bolgherini, F. Gelli (2011), Elezioni primarie: controllo dei partiti o partecipazione popolare? Una introduzione, Partecipazione e Conflitto/Participation and Conflict, (4) 1/2011, pp. 5-34 [ISSN: 1972-7623; DOI: 10.3280/PACO2011-001001] (EN: Primary elections: Party control or Citizens participation?)

S. Bolgherini, F. Musella (2009), Le primarie di Aversa, in G. Pasquino, F. Venturino (a cura di), Le primarie comunali in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, pp. 47-69 [ISBN: 9788815130914] (EN: Primary elections in the city of Aversa)

S. Bolgherini, F. Musella (2006), Le primarie italiane: ancora uno strumento di personalizzazione politica?, Italian Journal of Electoral Studies/Quaderni dell'osservatorio elettorale, (55) 1/2006, pp. 219-239 [ISSN: 0392-6753] (EN: Italian Primaries: Another Political Personalization Tool?)