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selectorate

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selectorate [sɪˈlɛktərɪt]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a body of people responsible for making a selection, esp members of a political party who select candidates for an election
[from select + (elect)orate]


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In the final analysis, Mr Miliband needs to keep his eyes not just on the internal party selectorate but on the broader electoral picture.
As Christopher Gelpi and Joseph Grieco write, because democratic leaders are accountable to large selectorates, "it is especially in democracies that the delivery of a public policy success such as economic growth is likely to play an important role in affecting the tenure of leaders.
The statistical evidence supports the authors' theory that the sizes of the selectorate and of the winning coalition determine political outcomes, rather than the alternative theory that democracy by itself is the determining factor.
 
 
 
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