In this paper, the thesis is put forward that selective outcome incentives for party membership gain relevance over time. Two possible mechanisms are identified as the cause of this increase in importance: a supply-side mechanism based on processes of societal change that took place through...

In this paper, I present a model of candidate entry into a two-tiered hierarchy of political positions with the objective of exploring the extent to which term limits at lower level political positions alter the average skill of office-seekers for higher level political positions. In addition,...

The process by which high-level office-holders are selected is shown to result in pure office-seeking politicians looking like ideologues. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000