British Labour Leaders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Labour Leaders write by Charles Clarke. This book was released on 2015-08-03. British Labour Leaders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considering the qualities of leaders from this historic party, among them some of the towering figures of British political history, this book places each in the context of their respective time and political landscape. From Keir Hardie to Ed Miliband, and featuring eight Labour prime ministers since the inauguration of James Ramsay MacDonald, it offers an analytical framework by which those leaders may be judged, and a detailed personal biography of each.
Leadership and the Labour Party
Leadership and the Labour Party - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leadership and the Labour Party write by John Gaffney. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Leadership and the Labour Party available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The relationships between narrative and leadership, between rhetoric and performance, between doctrine and its voicing, are crucial to party politics and are underrated by both practising politicians and scholars. This study analyses the ‘performance of leadership’ in the UK Labour Party, and what this means for a new approach to understanding politics. The main focus of this study is the five-year leadership of Ed Miliband, 2010-2015. The fortunes of the party and the party leadership can be apprehended as a series of performed rhetorical events. A political leader’s persona is a construction that performs – rather like an actor – in the political space. The author identifies and analyses the architecture and the modalities of leadership persona construction and performance in contemporary politics.
The Politics of Party Leadership
The Politics of Party Leadership - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Party Leadership write by William Paul Cross. This book was released on 2015. The Politics of Party Leadership available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the ways in which political parties choose their leaders and the implications of the different choices they make.
British Conservative Leaders
British Conservative Leaders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Conservative Leaders write by Charles Clarke. This book was released on 2015-09-08. British Conservative Leaders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the party that has won wars, reversed recessions and held prime ministerial power more times than any other, the Conservatives have played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Sir Robert Peel to David Cameron, via Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher - have steered the party vessel with enormously varying degrees of success. With the widening of the franchise, revolutionary changes to social values and the growing ubiquity of the media, the requirements, techniques and goals of Conservative leadership since the party's nineteenth-century factional breakaway have been forced to evolve almost beyond recognition - and not all its leaders have managed to keep up. This comprehensive and enlightening book considers the attributes and achievements of each leader in the context of their respective time and diplomatic landscape, offering a compelling analytical framework by which they may be judged, detailed personal biographies from some of the country's foremost political critics, and exclusive interviews with former leaders themselves. An indispensable contribution to the study of party leadership, British Conservative Leaders is the essential guide to understanding British political history and governance through the prism of those who created it.
Choosing the Labour Leader
Choosing the Labour Leader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choosing the Labour Leader write by Timothy Heppell. This book was released on 2010-08-30. Choosing the Labour Leader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The change in the method of selecting the Labour Party leader, from an elite parliamentary ballot to a mass participatory Electoral College, which occurred in 1981 was ideologically motivated. However, the strategy of the Left to enhance the accountability of the incumbent party leader to the wider Labour movement, and the Left's chances of securing an ideological succession in the party leadership failed. Drawing together debates on the method of party leadership selection and the ideological positioning of leadership candidates, this book examines each leadership election since 1963 as a means of charting the decline of the left within the Labour Party. Given the bypassing of the Electoral College to appoint Gordon Brown in 2007, and the debates surrounding his authority and legitimacy as Labour Party leader thereafter, this book offers a comprehensive and timely examination of Labour Party leadership elections from Wilson to Brown which will be invaluable for scholars of British Politics and the history of the Labour Party.
