Paul Webb

Paul Webb
University of Sussex · Department of Politics

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This chapter applies Aylott and Bolin’s framework (in this volume) for analysing leadership-selection procedures, and their consequences for the scope and autonomy of party leadership, to the main parties in Great BritainBritain (that is, excluding Northern Ireland). While describing the evolution of selection procedures since the 1960s, it address...
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This article investigates the way in which party organizational resources and processes may affect perceptions of democracy, looking at the impact of parties’ top-down communication mechanisms and bottom-up internal processes. Our examination breaks new ground by pairing party organizational data from the Political Party Database (PPDB) with indivi...
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The sister volume to a book called Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, this book offers a systematic and rigorous analysis of parties in some of the world's major new democracies. Drawing on a wealth of expertise and data, the book assesses the popular legitimacy, organizational development and functional performance of political...
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The sister volume to a book called Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, this book offers a systematic and rigorous analysis of parties in some of the world's major new democracies. Drawing on a wealth of expertise and data, the book assesses the popular legitimacy, organizational development and functional performance of political...
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Ihave criticized 74 proposed resolutions of the Fermi paradox,\(^{393}\) so it’s only fair that I give my own. I was unhappy with the treatment I presented in the first edition to this book, so this time round I’m trying a different approach. The conclusion is the same, but the route I take to get there is rather different. This is by no means an o...
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This book is one in a series (Comparative Politics) for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. It examines political parties in contemporary democracies, asking how relevant and vital they are, whether they fulfill the functions that any stable and effective democracy m...
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A frequently repeated, if anatomically unlikely, aphorism about the British Labour Party (LP) is that it grew out of 'the bowels of the trade union movement'. Coined by the former Transport union leader and ForeignSecretary in the Attlee governments, Ernest Bevin, this phrase graphically embodies the umbilical link which, constitutionally and organ...
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The June 1983 election seemed to herald the possible demise of two-party adversarialism in British politics. For the first time since 1945, a national political force other than Labour or the Conservatives returned more than one quarter of the vote cast and threatened to break into the citadel of major party supremacy. Since the 1970s the Nationali...

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