Party leadership selection and party leaders' powers: Empowered grassroots or leader-centric parties?

This paper explores whether parties' leadership selection procedures carry broader implications for intraparty power. Prior scholarship has documented an ongoing shift in the ways that parties select their leaders, with a growing tendency to include grassroots supporters in such decisions, sometimes...

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Published in:	Parliamentary Affairs Vol. 79; no. 2; pp. 243 - 263
Main Authors:	Poguntke, Thomas, Scarrow, Susan, Webb, Paul D
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Apr2026
Subjects:	Political parties Grassroots movements Political party leadership Inclusive leadership
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