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Modernising the Labour Party
Thomas Quinn
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Description for Modernising the Labour Party
Paperback. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Few parties have undergone such comprehensive organizational change as the Labour Party since 1983. Labour's organization once institutionalised the political exchange between office-seeking politicians and the party's policy-seeking trade union paymasters. Using accessible rational choice models, Thomas Quinn explores how consecutive election defeats prompted party leaders to modernize this structure to regain voters' trust, reducing union influence in policymaking, parliamentary candidate selection and leadership contests. The price may be a centralized party vulnerable to membership exit and union funding cuts.
Few parties have undergone such comprehensive organizational change as the Labour Party since 1983. Labour's organization once institutionalised the political exchange between office-seeking politicians and the party's policy-seeking trade union paymasters. Using accessible rational choice models, Thomas Quinn explores how consecutive election defeats prompted party leaders to modernize this structure to regain voters' trust, reducing union influence in policymaking, parliamentary candidate selection and leadership contests. The price may be a centralized party vulnerable to membership exit and union funding cuts.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349518272
SKU
V9781349518272
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Ref
99-15
About Thomas Quinn
THOMAS QUINN is Lecturer in Government at the University of Essex. He was previously Tutorial Fellow in Public Policy and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics, and has also taught at the University of Bristol. His research interests include British politics, political parties and rational choice theory.
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