Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy

Informationen zum Autor William Cross' books include Politics at the Centre: the Selection and Removal of Party Leaders in the Anglo Parliamentary Democracies, with Andre Blais, (Oxford University Press 2011) and Rebuilding Canadian Party Politics, with R. Kenneth Carty and Lisa Young (University of British Columbia Press 2000). From 2000-2010 he served as Director of the Canadian Democratic Audit. He is the Hon. Dick and Ruth Bell Chair for the Study of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada.Richard S. Katz was co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research (2006-2012), and of the EJPR Political Data Yearbook (1996-2006). His books include A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems (Johns Hopkins University Press 1980, 2006), Democracy and Elections (Oxford University Press 1997), How Parties Organize: Adaptation and Change in Party Organizations in Western Democracies, ed. with Peter Mair, (Sage 1994) and Handbook of Party Politics, ed. with William Crotty (Sage 2006). He is Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Johns Hopkins University. Klappentext The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy provides a comprehensive examination of the costs and benefits of intra-party democracy and the issues parties must contend with in setting their own organizational norms. Zusammenfassung The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy provides a comprehensive examination of the costs and benefits of intra-party democracy and the issues parties must contend with in setting their own organizational norms. 1. The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy ; 2. Are Political Parties Meant to be Internally Democratic? ; 3. Shaping Intra-Party Democracy: on the Legal Regulation of Internal Party Organizations ; 4. Should we Believe that Improved Intra-Party Democracy would Arrest Party Decline? ; 5. Party Members and Intra-Party Democracy ; 6. Intra-Party Democracy: a Gendered Critique and a Feminist Agenda ; 7. Party Leadership Selection and Intra-Party Democracy ; 8. Policy Development and Intra-Party Democracy ; 9. What is Democratic Candidate Selection ; 10. Intra-Party Democracy and Party Finance ; 11. Problematizing Intra-Party Democracy ; References ...

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• Authors: Katz Cross, William P. Cross, William P. (Hon. Dick and Ruth Bell Chair f Cross, William P. Katz Cross, Richard S. Katz
• Assisted by: William P. Cross (Editor), Cross William P. (Editor), Richard S. Katz (Editor), Katz Richard S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2013
• EAN: 9780199661879
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966187-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics (Hardcove; Comparative Politics; Comparative Politics (Hardcove
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Political structure & processes, Comparative Politics, Political structure and processes, Political parties and party platforms