Download or read book Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain written by Thomas Quinn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats each allow their members to participate in the selection of the party leader. It also examines the consequences of all-member ballots in leadership elections. It looks at how parties remove leaders, showing that each of the major British parties sought to make it harder to evict incumbents.