The challenges of intra-party democracy
Title:
The challenges of intra-party democracy
Author:
Cross, William P. (William Paul), 1962-
ISBN:
9780191638008
9781299443389
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Series:
Comparative politics
Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
Contents:
Challenges of intra-party democracy / William P. Cross and Richard S. Katz -- Are political parties meant to be internally democractic? / R. Kenneth Carty -- Shaping intra-party democracy: on the legal regulation of internal party organizations / Ingrid van Biezen and Daniela Romée Piccio -- Should we believe that improved intra-party democracy would arrest party decline? / Richard S. Katz -- Party members and intra-party democracy / Lisa Young -- Intra-party democracy: a gendered critique and a feminist agenda / Sarah Childs -- Party leadership selection and intra-party democracy / William P. Cross -- Policy development and intra-party democracy / Anika Gauja -- What is democratic candidate selection? / Gideon Rahat -- Intra-party democracy and party finance / Susan E. Scarrow -- Problematizing intra-party democracy / Richard S. Katz and William P. Cross.
Abstract:
This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the costs and benefits of intra-party democracy and the issues parties must contend with in setting their own organisational norms.
Genre:
Electronic Access:
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