ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses following questions: How are these new ways of selecting candidates implemented? What are the effects of selection procedures put in place by new parties on other parties? Are the parties changing the way they relate to electors and society at large? It looks at Great Recession's intensity has no clear relationship with the emergence of new parties. The chapter discusses intra-party democracy (IPD) practices for legislative candidate selection is implemented in most new actors but with some variations. It follows new institutionalism in organizational theory, especially when IPD practices as innovations are widely known and have reached the sedimentation stage. The chapter analyses three general patterns: Emergence of new parties with IPD and "contagion effect" on mainstream parties; nothing has changed. At least, apparently; and How the great recession made internally democratic parties more exclusive in their candidate selection. The chapter presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
