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Modernising the Labour Party

Organisational Change since 1983

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  • © 2005

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  1. Thomas Quinn

    1. University of Essex, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Aims and Methods

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    Pages 1-19

  3. Political Exchange and Party Organisation

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    Pages 20-44

  4. The Pre-Modernised Labour Party

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    Pages 45-70

  5. Policy-making

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    Pages 71-96

  6. The Selection of Parliamentary Candidates

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    Pages 97-120

  7. Electing the Party Leader

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    Pages 121-148

  8. Resources and Political Communications

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    Pages 149-170

  9. Conclusion: Labour’s Modernisation

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    Pages 171-195

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 196-227
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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.

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  • University of Essex, UK

    Thomas Quinn

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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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