Do Conventions Matter?: Choosing National Party Leaders in Canada 9780773565692
National leadership conventions in Canada attract widespread public interest but, with growing support for direct democr
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English Pages 432 [496] Year 1995
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Diagrams, Tables, and Appendices
1 Introduction
2 Two Generations of Leadership Conventions
3 A Party's Backstop: Leadership Review
4 Mega-Bucks for Mega-Conventions
5 "Mediated" Conventions: From Print to Tube
6 Three Conventions in Four Years
7 Who's There? Representative Conventions
8 The Demographics of Leadership
9 From Announcement Day to Acceptance Day: The Net Worth of Networks
10 Who Wins? Convention Coalitions
11 Mail Order Leadership: One Member, One Vote
12 Federal Leadership Selection Reforms: The Wave of the Future?
13 Do Conventions Matter? Parties, Conventions and Canadian Democracy
Tables
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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