The image of an ideal politician in the minds of Russian youth by A. A. Komarova

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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Maria Lenk, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…After all, political parties act as gatekeepers because they are in control of the list of candidates running for election. Drawing on theories of party politics, the authors argue for five different factors that could possibly explain the share of young MPs: the age of the party leader, the age of the party, the size of party support, the party’s ideology, and the party’s formal recruitment procedure for candidates. …”
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