scholarly journals The Labour Party leadership election: The Stark model and the selection of Keir Starmer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Heppell
Keyword(s):  
Labour Party ◽  
Explanatory Model ◽  
Leadership Selection ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Opinion Polling ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis article considers the selection of Keir Starmer as the new Leader of the Labour Party within the context of the Stark model for explaining leadership election outcomes. The article seeks to achieve three objectives. First, to provide an overview of the nomination stages and the candidates who contested the Labour Party leadership election. Second, to provide an analysis of the underlying academic assumptions of the Stark model on leadership selection and to assess its value as an explanatory model. Third, to use opinion-polling evidence to consider the selection of Starmer in relation to the criteria of the Stark model—i.e. that party leadership (s)electorates are influenced by the following hierarchy of strategic goals: acceptability or select the candidate most likely to unify the party; electability or select the candidate most likely to expand the vote base of the party; and competence or select the candidate most likely to be able to implement their policy objectives.

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.

scholarly journals Reto y Capacidad del Liderazgo en el Partido de la Revolución Democrática: 1988-2015.

Xihmai ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Navarrete Vela
Keyword(s):  
New Left ◽  
The Political ◽  
Charismatic Leader ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Left Party ◽  
Administrative Leader ◽  
Selection Of

Resumen.El propósito de este trabajo se enfoca en comparar el desarrollo de dos tipos de liderazgos en el PRD: el carismático y administrativo. Identifica los logros y desafí­os de Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas y Andrés Manuel López Obrador, miembros fundadores del partido hasta su renuncia de la organización. Se clasifica a través de la comparación de la influencia de ambos lí­deres en la selección de los dirigentes en la presidencia nacional del partido, así­ como el arribo de la fracción Nueva Izquierda a partir de 2008 hasta el 2015. Se destaca el efecto polí­tico-electoral de la salida de López Obrador, quien fundó MORENA como alternativa de izquierda al PRD.  Palabras clave: Lí­der carismático, lí­der administrativo, izquierda, liderazgo, institucionalización.Abstract.The purpose of this work focuses on comparing the two types of development in the PRD leadership: charismatic and administrative. Identifies the achievements and challenges of Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, founding members of the party until his resignation from the organization. The influence of both leaders in the selection of leaders in the national presidency of the party as well as the arrival of the New Left fraction is classified by comparison from 2008 until 2015 the political-electoral effect is highlighted the departure of Lopez Obrador, who founded MORENA alternative left to the PRD.Key words: Charismatic leader, Administrative leader, Left party, leadership, institutionalization

scholarly journals Why, sometimes, primaries? Intraparty democratization as a default selection mechanism in German and Spanish mainstream parties

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 594-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Astudillo ◽  
Klaus Detterbeck
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Selection Mechanism ◽  
Leadership Selection ◽  
Limited Knowledge ◽  
Western Democracies ◽  
Selection Of

In many Western democracies, political parties have started to open to members the selection of their leaders. While most studies focus on the introduction of this new selection method, its subsequent practice is still understudied. The article contributes to our still limited knowledge of this process by looking at two multilevel countries, Germany and Spain, where the mainstream parties have sometimes organized membership ballots, especially at the regional level, for leadership selection. Thanks to two original databases on party conferences and membership ballots, the article analyzes the background of this process and reviews the most common explanations offered by the literature. It shows that they are not held when parties want to regain power, or party chairs seek their nomination, as commonly believed, but when there are intraparty leadership disputes.

Revolt on the left

2018 ◽  
pp. 34-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Labour Party ◽  
Vote Share ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Jeremy Corbyn

This chapter offers an account of the Labour Party between the 2015 and 2017 general elections. It explains why Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader and how the party moved further to the left. It examines the very different responses to Corbyn’s leadership from within the party, and why he was both challenged for the party leadership by his MPs and able to defend his position with enormous support from the mass membership. It finishes by examining how, after languishing in the polls, Labour defied expectations on polling day by dramatically increasing its vote share.

Subverting the Organizational Cartel: Explaining Cross-Party Leadership Selection in U.S. State Houses

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-483
Author(s):  
Matthew N. Green
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
State Level ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Leadership Selection ◽  
Majority Party ◽  
Party Ideology ◽  
Level I ◽  
Selection Of

In the U.S. House of Representatives, the majority party constitutes an organizational cartel that monopolizes the selection of chamber leaders. But in state legislatures, that cartel power is sometimes circumvented by a bipartisan bloc that outvotes the leadership preferences of a majority of the majority party. Drawing from an original data set of instances of cross-party organizational coalitions at the state level, I use statistical analysis to test various hypotheses for when these coalitions are more likely to form. The analysis reveals that party ideology does not adequately explain the violation of these cartels; rather, violations depend on the costs associated with keeping the party unified and the benefits that come from selecting the chamber’s top leadership post. This finding underscores the potential vulnerability of organizational cartels and suggests that governing parties are strategic when deciding how fiercely to defend their cartel power.

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