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| Full Title | Quasi-Democracy? Parties and Leadership Selection in Alberta 1st Edition |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | David K. Stewart, Keith Archer |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| ISBN | 9780774850797, 9780774807913, 9780774807906, 9780774850773 |
| Publisher | UBC Press |
| Format | PDF and EPUB |
Many Canadian parties are shifting their process for selecting leaders from delegate conventions to methods that — at least in theory — allow all members to vote for the leader. In the leadership selections of the 1990s, Alberta’s governing Conservatives used a primary balloting system, the opposition Liberal Party allowed members to vote by phone, and the NDP held a traditional leadership convention. In Quasi-Democracy? David Stewart and Keith Archer examine political parties and leadership selection in Alberta using mail-back surveys administered to voters who participated in the Conservative, Liberal, and NDP leadership conventions elections of the 1990s. Leadership selection events, they contend, provide rare opportunities for observing the internal workings of the parties and people who “stand between the politicians and the electorate.” Using participant accounts and material from the press media, the authors analyze the factors that influence leadership selection in each party, develop attitudinal profiles of the supporters of the parties, and examine the party activists with respect to their backgrounds in provincial and federal politics. Quasi-Democracy? will be invaluable reading for students and scholars of party democracy and representation, and for those interested in the intricate machinations of the political process in Alberta.
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