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Democratising Conservative leadership selection : from grey suits to grass roots / Andrew Denham and Kieron O'Hara.
Van Pelt Library JN1129.C7 D463 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denham, Andrew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conservative Party (Great Britain).
- Political leadership--Great Britain.
- Political leadership.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1997-2007.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--2007-.
- Physical Description:
- x, 230 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: democracy, legitimacy and Conservative leadership 1
- 2 The 'magic circle' and after: from selection to election 11
- 3 Hague's revenge: the Conservative leadership election of 2001 48
- 4 Full circle to the magic circle 70
- 5 From May to December, part 1: the phoney war 105
- 6 From May to December, part 2: a tale of two speeches 132
- 7 Cameron's mandate for modernisation 173
- I Conservative Party leadership election results, 1965-2005 203
- II The experience upon reaching office of Conservative Party leaders since the war 208
- III Declarations of support in the 2005 Conservative Party leadership election 212
- IV Bookmakers' odds on the 2005 Conservative Party leadership election 215.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [218]-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719075070
- 0719075076
- 0719075084
- 9780719075087
- OCLC:
- 276348624
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