Choosing party leaders: Anglophone democracies, British parties and the limits of comparative politics

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Choosing party leaders: Anglophone democracies, British parties and the limits of comparative politics

Since 1965, Britain’s major political parties have radically, and repeatedly, changed the ways in which they choose their leaders. Building on a recent comparative study of party leadership selection in the five principal Anglophone (‘Westminster’) parliamentary democracies (Cross and Blais, 2012a),...

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Main Author:	Denham, Andrew
Format:	Article
Published:	Palgrave Macmillan 2017
Subjects:	party leaders; leadership selection; Anglophone democracies; comparative politics; British politics
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35207/

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