The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies: A Comparative Study

The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies: A Comparative Study
ISBN-10
0415704162
ISBN-13
9780415704168
Category
Political Science
Pages
266
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Authors
William Paul Cross, Jean-Benoit Pilet

Description

This book explores the ways in which political parties, in contemporary parliamentary democracies, choose their leaders and then subsequently hold them accountable. The authors provide a comprehensive examination of party leadership selection and accountability both through examination of parties and countries in different institutional settings and through a holistic analysis of the role of party leaders and the methods through which they assume, and exit, the office. The collection includes essays on Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Norway and the United Kingdom which have important differences in their party systems, their degree of democratization, the role assigned to party leaders and their methods of leadership selection. Each country examination provides significant data relating to party rules and norms of leadership selection, leadership tenures and leadership contests. The book concludes with a chapter that merges the country data analyses to provide a truly comparative examination of the theoretical questions underlying the volume. This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of legislative studies, elections, democracy, political parties, party systems, political elites and comparative politics.

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