Replication Data for: Retaining Political Talent: A Candidate-Centered Theory of Primary Adoption
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Why do party leaders constrain their own power and allow the use of primary elections? I develop a model of intraparty politics and electoral competition in which an ambitious officeseeker reevaluates her party affiliation after her party chooses a nomination rule. The model shows that, in settings in which the linkages between politicians and parties are weak, party leaders adopt primaries in order to keep potential defectors from pursuing their individual ambitions outside of the party. The main theoretical result shows that only parties that are electorally strong ex ante can use primaries as a strategy to hold their parties together. Thus, in contrast to an extensive literature that links the use of primaries to electorally weak parties, this model posits the existence of a positive relationship between the use of primaries and a pa' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Candidate selection","Endogenous institutional change","Party switching","Primaries"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Why do party leaders constrain their own power and allow the use of primary elections? I develop a model of intraparty politics and electoral competition in which an ambitious officeseeker reevaluates her party affiliation after her party chooses a nomination rule. The model shows that, in settings in which the linkages between politicians and parties are weak, party leaders adopt primaries in order to keep potential defectors from pursuing their individual ambitions outside of the party. The main theoretical result shows that only parties that are electorally strong ex ante can use primaries as a strategy to hold their parties together. Thus, in contrast to an extensive literature that links the use of primaries to electorally weak parties, this model posits the existence of a positive relationship between the use of primaries and a pa' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
Why do party leaders constrain their own power and allow the use of primary elections? I develop a model of intraparty politics and electoral competition in which an ambitious officeseeker reevaluates her party affiliation after her party chooses a nomination rule. The model shows that, in settings in which the linkages between politicians and parties are weak, party leaders adopt primaries in order to keep potential defectors from pursuing their individual ambitions outside of the party. The main theoretical result shows that only parties that are electorally strong ex ante can use primaries as a strategy to hold their parties together. Thus, in contrast to an extensive literature that links the use of primaries to electorally weak parties, this model posits the existence of a positive relationship between the use of primaries and a pa
Candidate selection; Endogenous institutional change; Party switching; Primaries