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This chapter delineates the differences and similarities between leadership selection and candidate selection methods. It then maps the similarities and differences between these two related but distinct methods of selection in terms of various dimensions: candidacy, selectorate, decentralisation, appointment/voting and deselection. Although it is tempting to treat leadership selection as an offshoot of candidate selection, the research literature that focuses on parliamentary democracies treats the two separately. The relatively minor differences in the case of candidacy, selectorate, decentralisation and appointment/voting system are: Leadership and candidate selection are, however, substantially different when it comes to deselection, but this large difference is confined to the case of parliamentary democracy. Thus, candidate selection where we have multiple candidacies and where we expect some level of …