Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain

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Springer, Feb 7, 2012 - Political Science - 248 pages
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats each allow their members to participate in the selection of the party leader. It also examines the consequences of all-member ballots in leadership elections. It looks at how parties remove leaders, showing that each of the major British parties sought to make it harder to evict incumbents.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders
8
2 Selection and Ejection by the Parliamentary Party
31
The Electoral College
57
Enfranchising the Members
97
One MemberOne Vote
131
An Assessment
158
Labour Party Leadership Election Results 19552010
189
British National Party
201
Scottish National Party
203
Plaid Cymru
205
Labour Party Leaders in Scotland and Wales
206
Conservative Party Leaders in Scotland and Wales
208
Liberal Democrat Leaders in Scotland and Wales
209
Donations to Candidates in Party Leadership Contests 200110
211
Proposed Labour Leadership Election Timetable 2009
214

Conservative Party Leadership Election Results 19652005
192
Liberal Party Social Democratic Party and Liberal Democrat Leadership Election Results 19672007
195
Green Party of England and Wales
197
United Kingdom Independence Party
199
Notes
216
Index
237
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THOMAS QUINNLecturer in Government at the University of Essex, UK. His previous book was Modernising the Labour Party: Organisational Change since 1983 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

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