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Boda Zeuner

The manuscript of this work was completed in the fall of 1968. The nomination of Bundestag candidates I969 could not therefore be compared with the results of this 1965 study. Press reports, among which the comprehensive cover story of the SPIEGEL from 7.7. In particular, a change in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) deserves particular emphasis. The willingness to openly settle conflicts of interest was considerably greater in this party in 1969 than four years earlier. Other basic patterns of sPD nominations described in this work - such as localism, the lack of interest group proportionality, intensive regional representation, and low political emphasis on the selection of applicants - appear to have been preserved in 1969, too. For the financial support of the empirical investigations I have to thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; my thanks also go to prof. dr. Kurt Sontheimer, who supervised this work as a dissertation and gave valuable suggestions. Hamburg, May I970 BODO ZEUNER XIII Part I Introduction I. Relevance of the candidate list to the Bundestag The establishment of parliamentary candidates can be understood as a section of two different processes that are of fundamental importance to the functioning of Western multiparty systems: the process of intra-party Formation of wills and the process of selecting drivers. In both processes, the candidate composition represents a significant incision

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