Selecting the Party Leader: Britain in Comparative Perspective

✍ Scribed by R. M. Punnett (auth.)

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 198
Series: Contemporary Political Studies
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-25
The ‘Emergence’ of the Party Leader: The Conservatives until 1963....Pages 26-51
The Election of the Party Leader by MPs I: The Conservatives since 1965....Pages 52-79
The Election of the Party Leader by MPs II: Labour until 1980....Pages 80-104
The Election of the Party Leader by Activists: Labour’s Electoral College....Pages 105-129
The Election of the Leader by Party Members: Liberals, Social Democrats and Liberal Democrats....Pages 130-153
Conclusion....Pages 154-175
Back Matter....Pages 177-186

✦ Subjects

British Politics; Comparative Politics

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