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Author Cross, William P.

Title Politics at the centre : the selection and removal of party leaders in the Anglo parliamentary democracies / William P. Cross, André Blais
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (230 pages)
Series Comparative Politics
Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
Contents Why Study Party Leadership Selection? -- Who Picks the Party Leader? -- Explaining Change in Leadership Selectorates -- Rules of the Game -- Retirements, Resignations, and Removals -- Running, Getting Elected, and Staying in Office -- Organizing, Strategizing, and Voting in Leadership Elections -- Leadership Selection in Non-Westminster Democracies -- How Should we Choose Party Leaders?
Summary Politics at the Centre is a comparative study of the rules, norms and behaviour surrounding political party leadership. The primary analysis includes 25 parties in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom from 1965 onwards. The topics covered include methods of leadership selection and removal and the nature of leadership politics. The themes of the book include intra party democracy, with an emphasis on the relative roles of the parliamentary and extra parliamentary groups, and the causes of organizational reform within parties
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Political parties -- Cross-cultural studies
Political leadership -- Cross-cultural studies
Cabinet system -- Cross-cultural studies
Elections -- Cross-cultural studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Leadership.
Cabinet system
Elections
Political leadership
Political parties
Genre/Form Electronic books
Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Blais, André, 1947-
ISBN 9780191628450
019162845X
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