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Choosing a Leader: Party Leadership Contests in Britain from Macmillan to Blair - Softcover

Stark, L.

 
9780333653364: Choosing a Leader: Party Leadership Contests in Britain from Macmillan to Blair
Softcover
ISBN 10: 033365336X ISBN 13: 9780333653364
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

This fascinating study contains important new information and original insights into a poorly-understood political phenomenon: contests for party leadership. It describes, in far greater detail than has appeared before, the frequently bitter struggles over leadership selection which have plagued the Conservative, Labour, Liberal, Social Democratic, and Liberal Democrat parties. Based on extensive interviewing with former party leaders, and careful analysis of leadership contests in each party, the book concludes that leadership selection rules rarely affect who stands for party leadership or who wins the contests.

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LEONARD P. STARK

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Over the last three decades British political parties have radically, and repeatedly, changed the ways in which they choose their leaders. This book describes, in far greater detail than has appeared before, the frequently bitter debates over leadership selection in the Conservative, Labour, Liberal, Social Democratic and Liberal Democrat parties. Given the extensive efforts parties have devoted to refining their selection rules, it is surprising to find that the new rules have had few identifiable consequences. Only rarely have the rules affected who runs for party leadership, how they campaign, or who wins the contest. Careful analysis reveals that, contrary to conventional belief, leadership contests are far more likely to be beneficial than harmful for a party - as was again demonstrated by John Major's 1995 re-election as Conservative Party leader. Based on extensive interviewing with former party leaders and other politicians, this book is a fascinating study of an important yet poorly understood phenomenon: party leadership contests.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
033365336X
ISBN 13 
9780333653364
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
260
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