Choosing Party Leaders - Britain''s Conservatives and Labour Compared

This rigorous, seminal study of leadership selection in British Politics focuses on the Conservatives and Labour Party to explore the skills needed to be an effective leader over the course of the 20th and into the 21st Century.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Towards the end of the 'magic circle'
2 A democratic parliamentary Conservative Party
3 Enfranchising the extra-parliamentary party
4 From chairman to leader: the selection of Labour leaders by the Parliamentary Labour Party, 1906-80
5 From Healey to Miliband: the election of Labour leaders and deputy leaders by the Electoral College
6 The Labour leadership election(s) of Jeremy Corbyn
Conclusion
References
Index

About the author

Andrew Denham is Reader in Government at the University of NottinghamAndrew S. Crines is a Research Fellow in Rhetoric and British Politics at the University of Leeds

Summary

This rigorous, seminal study of leadership selection in British Politics focuses on the Conservatives and Labour Party to explore the skills needed to be an effective leader over the course of the 20th and into the 21st Century. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Denham, Andrew Dorey Denham, Denham Andrew, Peter Dorey, Dorey Peter, Andrew S. Roe-Crines
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781526134868
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3486-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: New Perspectives on the Right
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Political parties and party platforms