By R.M. Punnett
This can be a learn of the "what, why and so what" of the method of choosing social gathering leaders in Britain and somewhere else. It seeks to reply to the questions - via what skill does a celebration choose is chief; why does it use that specific process, and what effects stream from its use of that method?. whereas the book's basic concentration is the choice of the leaders of the most British events, the British adventure is positioned in a comparative context and is used to demonstrate common gains of leader-selection tactics in aggressive social gathering structures. present practices also are positioned in old standpoint.
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The choice of candidate could be made through a secret ballot open to all members of the party, or all of its voters, or perhaps even all voters (on the lines of an American 'blanket primary' in which any voter, regardless of party affiliation, can participate). A truly 'closed' or non-participatory process, on the other hand, would be one in wh ich a contest could be held only when a specific vacancy arose. There would be no provision for contests at fixed intervals or for challenges to an incumbent.
Further , the constitutional practices and assumptions of the Westminster system as it deve10ped in the nineteenth century pointed to the fusion of the roles of Prime Minister and party leader. The pattern of two-party competition after 1868 meant that single-party majority governments were the norm, while the practices of Cabinet government demanded that the Prime Minister be the leading figure in the governing party. Had the Westminster system been characterized by proportional representation, with a multiplicity of parties and coalition governments, there would not have been the inevitable link between the offices of Prime Minister and party leader.
Until 1965 the British Conservative party leader was normally produced through some variation of such informal procedures. Similarly, during the Israeli Labour party's long years in office in the 1950s and 1960s, successive leaders were chosen at informal meetings of the party's 'historie elite' of veteran leaders. Secondly, the choiee of leader might extend beyond the party notables to its elected representatives in the legislature. Since 1965 the British Conservative party has elected its leader by means of such aballot of MPs, and Labour and the Liberals used this method until 1981 and 1976 respectively.
