Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Choosing Leaders -- 2 The Conventions -- 3 From J. Buchanan to A. Buchanan: Candidates and Voters -- 4 Tourists or Partisans? Political Background and Leadership Election Engagement -- 5 Leadership Election Support Patterns: Friends and Neighbours? -- 6 Town versus Country: Urban-Rural Divisions -- 7 Brothers and Sisters? Gender-Based Voting at Party Conventions -- 8 Inter- and Intraparty Attitudinal Differences -- 9 Rebels without a Cause? Supporters of Fringe Candidates -- 10 Going My Way? "Delivering" Votes after the First Ballot -- 11 Prince Edward Island and the Garden Myth -- 12 New Brunswick: The Politics of Language -- 13 Nova Scotia: The Challenge of Social Democracy -- 14 The End of the Affair? Political Scientists and the Delegated Convention -- 15 Conclusion -- Appendix: Leadership Election Profiles for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.