Description |
1 online resource (230 pages) |
Series |
Comparative Politics |
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Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
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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
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Political leadership -- Cross-cultural studies
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Cabinet system -- Cross-cultural studies
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Elections -- Cross-cultural studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Leadership.
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Cabinet system
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Elections
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Political leadership
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Political parties
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Cross-cultural studies
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Blais, André, 1947-
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ISBN |
9780191628450 |
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019162845X |
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9780199596720 |
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0199596727 |
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9780191740688 |
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0191740683 |
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9786613426840 |
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6613426849 |
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