Do Conventions Matter?: Choosing National Party Leaders in CanadaMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1995 - 477 sider Do Conventions Matter? provides a complete overview of national party conventions in Canada, from 1919, when the first convention was held, to 1993, including the selection of Stanfield, Trudeau, Broadbent, Clark, Mulroney, Turner, McLaughlin, Chrétien, Campbell, and Manning. Courtney compares leadership selection practices in Canada with those in the United States, Britain, and Australia, and shows that Canadian conventions remain a distinctive means of choosing party leaders. Focusing on modern developments in the convention process, Courtney highlights changes in representation over the last thirty years, addresses criticisms about costs and delegate selection practices, and examines the role of the media. He concludes with an examination of the future of conventions in the context of Canadian democracy, given sky-rocketing costs, the movement to reform political parties, and the push towards a universal membership vote. He argues convincingly that the objectives of greater representation and greater democracy explain both the emergence of conventions to choose the leaders of federal parties and their possible demise in the near future. |
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Introduction | 3 |
Two Generations of Leadership Conventions | 8 |
A Partys Backstop Leadership Review | 31 |
MegaBucks for MegaConventions | 54 |
Mediated Conventions From Print to Tube | 78 |
Three Conventions in Four Years | 103 |
Whos There? Representation Conventions | 127 |
The Demographics of Leadership | 159 |
Mail Order Leadership One Member One Vote | 233 |
Federal Leadership Selection Reforms The Wave of the Future? | 254 |
Do Conventions Matter? Parties Conventions and Canadian Democracy | 274 |
Tables | 295 |
Appendices | 363 |
Notes | 375 |
Bibliography | 451 |
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From Announcement Day to Acceptance Day The Net Worth of Networks | 185 |
Who Wins? Convention Coalitions | 212 |
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