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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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 324.5/6/0971
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0773513574 9780773565692
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- JL196
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- C63 1995eb
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- CaOONL
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- 1 electronic text (xviii, 477 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200755 (CaBNVSL)slc00200755 (CaBNVSL) (CaBNVSL)gtp00523324 (OCoLC)181843761 (CaOOCEL)400730
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 16
- Diagrams, Tables, and Appendices 10
- 1 Introduction 22
- 2 Two Generations of Leadership Conventions 27
- 3 A Party's Backstop: Leadership Review 50
- 4 Mega-Bucks for Mega-Conventions 73
- 5 "Mediated" Conventions: From Print to Tube 97
- 6 Three Conventions in Four Years 122
- 7 Who's There? Representative Conventions 146
- 8 The Demographics of Leadership 178
- 9 From Announcement Day to Acceptance Day: The Net Worth of Networks 204
- 10 Who Wins? Convention Coalitions 231
- 11 Mail Order Leadership: One Member, One Vote 252
- 12 Federal Leadership Selection Reforms: The Wave of the Future? 273
- 13 Do Conventions Matter? Parties, Conventions and Canadian Democracy 293
- Tables 314
- Appendices 382
- Notes 394
- Bibliography 470
- Index 486
- A 486
- B 486
- C 487
- D 488
- E 489
- F 489
- G 489
- H 490
- I 490
- J 490
- K 490
- L 490
- M 491
- N 492
- O 493
- P 493
- Q 494
- R 494
- S 494
- T 495
- U 495
- V 496
- W 496
- Y 496
