By William Cross, Jean-Benoit Pilet
Employing a distinct information set that incorporates greater than a thousand management elections from over a hundred events in 14 international locations over a nearly 50 12 months interval, this quantity presents the 1st finished, comparative exam of ways events decide on their leaders and the influence of the several judgements they make during this regard. one of the concerns tested are how leaders are selected, the criteria that bring about events altering their choice principles, how the principles impact the competitiveness of management elections, the categories of leaders selected, the effect of management transition on electoral results, the standards affecting the size of management tenures, and the way management tenures come to an end
This quantity is located within the literature on intra-party determination making and celebration organizational reform and makes special and significant contributions to our realizing of those components. The research contains events in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Norway, and the United Kingdom.
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The first relates to what we have described as the most widely covered facet of the politics of party leadership in contemporary literature: the rules organizing the selection. The trend towards more inclusive methods of leadership selection has raised significant interest among students of political parties. We already have a good understanding of what are the most common selectorates used to elect party leaders and of the circumstances under which shifting to more inclusive selectorates (party members or even voters) is most likely.
Yet, whether the selectorate, and more broadly the rules organizing party leadership, really make a difference remains unclear. Various Page 13 of 15 Uncovering the Politics of Party Leadership chapters of this book contribute to this discussion. For example, in Chapter 4, among other things, consideration is given to the impact of the selectorate on the competitiveness of leadership elections. The influence of formal rules is also discussed in Chapters 5 and 6 on the selection of leaders with a different profile (women, younger, or less experienced).
The findings also showed that the liberals have a similar level of inclusiveness to that of the radical left and greens. The second hypothesis (H2), predicting no clear pattern for the regionalist parties, was also confirmed. It has to be added, though, that party conference delegates is again the mode category of leadership selection for this party family (and thus, partially questioning our hypothesis). 30) in long established democracies have more inclusive leadership selection methods than do their counterparts in the newer democracies (H6), but this is not exactly true for the liberals and the social democrats.
