This book explores the ways in which political parties, in contemporary parliamentary democracies, choose their leaders and then subsequently hold them accounta

Politics at the Centre is a comparative study of the rules, norms and behaviour surrounding political party leadership. The primary analysis includes 25 parties

This book explores the ways in which political parties, in contemporary parliamentary democracies, choose their leaders and then subsequently hold them accounta

This book studies party leaders from selection to post-presidency. Based on data covering a large set of Western countries, and focusing on the trends of person

Outcomes of legislative elections are typically reported in terms of party support: how many votes and seats were obtained by each party? But in fact voters are