Quasi-Democracy?

Parties and Leadership Selection in Alberta

By David K. Stewart & Keith Archer
Categories: Political Science, Canadian Political Science, Government & Elections, Regional & Cultural Studies, Canadian Studies, Political Theory
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774807906, 208 pages, July 2000
Paperback : 9780774807913, 208 pages, February 2001
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774850773, 208 pages, December 2013
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774850797, 208 pages, February 2001

Table of contents

Tables

Preface

1. Party Democracy in Alberta?

2. The "United Right?" Lessons from the 1992 PC Leadership
Election

3. Electing the Premier

4. Electronic Fiasco: The 1994 Liberal Tele-Vote

5. A Party of "Communities?" The 1994 NDP Leadership
Convention

6. Gender Differences among Party Activists

7. Democracy, Representation and the Selection of Party Leaders

8. Quasi-Democracy? Lessons from Alberta

Appendices; Notes; References; Index

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.

Description

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."