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Do conventions matter? : choosing national party leaders in Canada

Do Conventions Matter? provides a complete overview of national party conventions in Canada. Courtney describes national party conventions from 1919 to 1993, including the selection of Stanfield, Trudeau, Broadbent, Clark, Mulroney, Turner, McLaughlin, Chretien, Campbell, and Manning. He 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.

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  • "Choosing national party leaders in Canada"@en

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  • "National leadership conventions in Canada attract widespread public interest but, with growing support for direct democracy and universal voting, they may soon become a thing of the past. In Do Conventions Matter? John Courtney, a leading authority in the field, explores the party leadership selection process in Canada in an age of television-dominated politics and assesses its uncertain future."
  • "Do Conventions Matter? provides a complete overview of national party conventions in Canada. Courtney describes national party conventions from 1919 to 1993, including the selection of Stanfield, Trudeau, Broadbent, Clark, Mulroney, Turner, McLaughlin, Chretien, Campbell, and Manning. He 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."@en

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  • "Do Conventions Matter? Choosing National Party Leaders in Canada"
  • "Do conventions matter? : choosing National Party leaders in Canada"
  • "Do conventions matter ? : choosing National Party leaders in Canada"
  • "Do conventions matter? : choosing national party leaders in Canada"
  • "Do conventions matter? : choosing national party leaders in Canada"@en
  • "Do conventions matter? choosing national party leaders in Canada"@en
  • "Do conventions matter? choosing national party leaders in Canada"

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