scholarly journals Upcoming AGU Leadership Elections

Eos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Elections

AGU announces the full slate of leadership candidates. Voting will open at the end of September.

Choosing the Leader

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Matthew N. Green ◽  
Douglas B. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Early Research ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Leadership Selection ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Leadership Elections ◽  
The Common

This book attempts to fill the gap in the understanding of how congressional leaders are chosen. It offers the first systematic analysis of party leadership elections in Congress since the 1970s, looking in particular at how election campaigns unfold and the factors driving lawmakers' vote choice when vacancies occur or challenges erupt against sitting leaders. This chapter begins with a brief review of the House's major elected party leadership positions. It then discusses the common wisdom about congressional leadership elections and the limits of early research on the topic. Next, it introduces a new theory of leadership selection and explain how candidates, campaigns, and political context contribute to the factors that shape legislators' vote choice for a leader. It then introduces the empirical data used in this study, describes the testing methodology, and outlines the chapters that follow.

Electing a Leader

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-112
Author(s):  
Rodney Brazier
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Formal System ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
General Election ◽  
Opposition Party ◽  
Leadership Elections ◽  
The Government ◽  
Jeremy Corbyn ◽  
Theresa May

A person normally becomes Prime Minister either after winning a General Election, or after the Government party has elected a new leader to succeed a Prime Minister. Leadership of one of the main political parties is therefore a prerequisite for entering Number 10 Downing Street. This chapter examines exactly how the main parties have elected their leaders since 1902, setting the processes in their historical contexts, and explaining why the systems have been changed down the years. The Conservative Party did not have a formal system until after a major crisis in 1963; Labour has always elected its leader; but the systems which have been used have been altered for political reasons. Recent leadership elections, e.g. of Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Jeremy Corbyn, are examined. The chapter also explains the ways in which an opposition party can get rid of a leader who doesn’t want to quit.

scholarly journals Does It Pay Off? The Effects of Party Leadership Elections on Parties’ Trustworthiness and Appeal to Voters

2020 ◽  
pp. 003232172093206
Author(s):  
Bram Wauters ◽  
Anna Kern
Keyword(s):  
Reducing Power ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Leadership Selection ◽  
Selection Procedures ◽  
Leadership Elections ◽  
Party Elites ◽  
Party Members ◽  
Vignette Experiment ◽  
Positive Effect

In the last few decades, political parties in several Western countries have opened up the process of leadership selection to all party members. So far, research has mainly focused on the drivers of this development, taking into account both internal factors (reducing power of middle-level party elites) and external factors (increasing the party’s attractiveness). Only few studies have tested the effects of these external arguments. In this study, we investigate whether parties that select their leader inclusively (1) exhibit higher levels of trustworthiness, and are more appealing to (2) voters and (3) potential members. Based on the procedural fairness argument, we expect a positive effect of inclusive procedures. We conduct a vignette experiment with fictional parties and find that inclusive selection procedures do not strengthen citizens’ perceptions of trustworthiness. Moreover, citizens are not more willing to vote or join parties with inclusive selection procedures.

Party Leadership Elections in the UK

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-19
Author(s):  
Paula Keaveney
Keyword(s):  
Party Leadership ◽  
Leadership Elections ◽  
The Uk
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