The challenges of intra-party democracy /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Cross, William P. (William Paul), 1962-, Katz, Richard S.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:	Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:	Political parties. Democracy. Démocratie locale. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Parties. Democracy Political parties Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.