Jean-Benoit Pilet (ed.) - The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies: A Comparative Study

The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies

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 democratisation, 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.

Jean-Benoit Pilet is Lecturer and Director of Cevipol in the Department of Political Science at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.

William P. Cross is Professor and the Hon. Dick and Ruth Bell Chair for the Study of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, Canada.

Routledge research on social and political elites

Edited by

Keith Dowding

Australian National University

and

Patrick Dumont

University of Luxembourg

Who are the elites that run the world? This series of books analyses who the elites are, how they rise and fall, the networks in which they operate and the effects they have on our lives.

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3 Parliamentary Elites in Central and Eastern Europe

Recruitment and representation

Edited by Elena Semenova, Michael Edinger and Heinrich Best

4 The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies

A comparative study

Edited by Jean-Benoit Pilet and William P. Cross

The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies

A comparative study

Edited by Jean-Benoit Pilet and William P. Cross

First published 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

The selection of political party leaders in contemporary parliamentary democracies : a comparative study / edited by Jean-Benoit Pilet, William Cross.

pages cm. (Routledge research on social and political elites)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Political parties. 2. Political leadership. 3. Cabinet system.

I. Pilet, Jean-Benoit. II. Cross, William P. (William Paul), 1962

JF2051.S393 2013

ISBN: 978-0-415-70416-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-85602-5 (ebk)

Elin Haugsgjerd Allern is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her recent publications include a special issue of Party Politics on party-interest group relationships (with Tim Bale, 2012).

Tim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. His most recent books include The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change and European Politics: A Comparative Introduction, now in its third edition.

Montserrat Baras is Associate Professor at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB). Author of several books and articles on Spanish politics, she has been team leader of several Spanish research grants devoted to the study of regionalist parties and decentralisation.

Oscar Barber is Associate Professor at the Universitat de valncia (UV). Previously he has been a lecturer and visiting fellow at several Spanish and European universities. His PhD thesis was published by the Centro de Investigaciones Sociolgicas.

Astrid Barrio is an associate at the Universitat de valncia (Spain). She has a Masters from Sciences-Po (Paris, 1999) and has been teaching or researching at Barcelona (UOC and UAB), Paris (Sciences-Po), and Montpellier (UM). She was awarded the prize of the Spanish Political Science Association for best thesis.

Mihail Chiru is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science, Central European University Budapest. He is mainly interested in individual accountability processes as reflected in election campaigns and legislative behaviour.

William P. Cross 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. His work centres around questions of intra-party democracy and party organisation, and his most recent book is The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy (Oxford University Press, with Richard S. Katz).

Klaus Detterbeck is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Magdeburg. His main research areas are political parties, federalism and European regions. His publications include Multi-Level Party Politics in Western Europe (Palgrave Macmillan 2012).

Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik is a researcher at the Austrian National Election Study at the University of viennas Department of Government. His main research interests are political parties, party competition, coalition politics, party patronage, and political appointments. His publications include articles in Governance, European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Political Studies and Party Politics.

Andr Freire is Auxiliary Professor with Habitation, Department of Political Science and Public Policies at the Lisbon University Institute in Portugal. His research interests include electoral behavior, political institutions and political representation. He has published widely in these areas.