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Politics at the Centre - The Selection and Removal of Party Leaders in the Anglo Parliamentary Democracies (Hardcover)
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Politics at the Centre - The Selection and Removal of Party Leaders in the Anglo Parliamentary Democracies (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Politics
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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. Particular attention is paid
to change over time and to differences among parties with
explanations offered for both. Considerable attention is paid to
the trend of expanding the leadership selectorate including
consideration of why many parties are adopting this reform while
others resist it. Data, collected from more than 200 leadership
elections, are analyzed to consider issues such as the
competitiveness of leadership contests, the types of individuals
who win the contests and the longevity of leaders. The influence of
different methods of selection and removal on these issues is also
examined. Much of the analysis is based on in-country interviews
conducted with active politicians, former and current party
leaders, political journalists and officials of the extra
parliamentary parties. Extensive use is also made of a
comprehensive review of party documents related to leadership
selection. Many real-life examples from all five countries are used
to illustrate the central concepts and themes. A separate chapter
considers the applicability of the findings from the Westminster
systems to parties in other parliamentary and presidential systems.
The concluding chapter makes a normative argument for a particular
version of leadership selection and removal. Comparative Politics
is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political
science that deals with contemporary government and politics.
Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress
on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The
series is published in association with the European Consortium for
Political Research. For more information visit:
www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr. The Comparative Politics Series is edited by
Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics and International
Relations, University College Dublin, Kenneth Carty, Professor of
Political Science, University of British Columbia, and Professor
Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Institute of Political Science, Philipps
University, Marburg.
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