ACADEMIC AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES ON PARTY
LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS AND EJECTIONS IN BRITAIN
LABOUR PARTY
Alderman, Keith and Neil Carter (1993) ‘The Labour Party Leadership and Deputy
Leadership Elections of 1992’, Parliamentary Affairs 46 (1): 49-65
Alderman, Keith and Neil Carter (1995) ‘The Labour Party Leadership and Deputy
Leadership Elections of 1994’, Parliamentary Affairs 48 (3): 438-55
Bower, Tom (2007) Gordon Brown: Prime Minister (London: Harper Perennial), pp. 123-47
Brown, Colin (1997) Fighting Talk: The Biography of John Prescott (London: Simon &
Schuster), pp. 231-51
Denham, Andrew and Peter Dorey (2007) ‘Just the Ticket? The Labour Party’s Deputy
Leadership Election of 2007’, Political Quarterly 78 (4): 527-35
Dorey, Peter and Andrew Denham (2011) ‘O, Brother, Where Art Thou? The Labour Party
Leadership Election of 2010’, British Politics 6 (3): 286-316
Drucker, Henry (1976) ‘Leadership Selection in the Labour Party’, Parliamentary Affairs 29
(4): 378-95
Drucker, Henry (1981) ‘Changes in the Labour Party Leadership’, Parliamentary Affairs 34
(4): 369-81
Drucker, Henry (1984) ‘Intra-party Democracy in Action: The Election of Leader and Deputy
Leader by the Labour Party in 1983’, Parliamentary Affairs 37 (3): 283-300
Fieschi, Catherine (2007) ‘Laws, Sausages and Leadership Transitions’, Parliamentary
Affairs 60 (3): 482-91
Golant, William (1970) ‘The Emergence of C. R. Attlee as Leader of the Parliamentary
Labour Party in 1935’, Historical Journal 13 (2): 318-32
Gould, Bryan (1995) Goodbye to All That (London: Macmillan), pp. 253-63
Heppell, Timothy (2010) Choosing the Labour Leader: Labour Party Leadership Elections
from Wilson to Brown (London: IB Tauris)
Heppell, Timothy (2010) ‘Labour Leadership Elections from Wilson to Brown: Ideological
Factions and Succession Planning Strategies’, Representation 46 (1): 69-79
Heppell, Timothy (2010) ‘The Labour Leadership Election of 1963: Explaining the
Unexpected Election of Harold Wilson’, Contemporary British History 24 (2): 151-71
Heppell, Timothy and Andrew Crines (2011) ‘How Michael Foot Won the Labour Party
Leadership’, Political Quarterly 82 (1): 81-94
Heppell, Timothy, Andrew Crines and Robert Nicholls (2010) ‘Ideological Alignments
within the Parliamentary Labour Party and the 1976 Leadership Election’, British Politics 5
(1): 65-91
Jobson, Richard and Mark Wickham-Jones (2010) ‘Gripped by the Past: Nostalgia and the
2010 Labour Party Leadership Contest’, British Politics 5 (4): 525-48
Jobson, Richard and Mark Wickham-Jones (2011) ‘Reinventing the Block Vote? Trade
Unions and the 2010 Labour Party Leadership Election’, British Politics 6 (3): 317-44
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Kelly, Richard (1993) ‘Choosing Labour Leaders: Reforms and Surprises’, Politics Review 3
(1)
Kelly, Richard (1995) ‘Labour’s Leadership Contest and Internal Organisation’, Politics
Review 4 (3)
McSmith, Andy (1993) John Smith: Playing the Long Game (London: Verso), pp. 203-15
Pimlott, Ben (1993) Harold Wilson (London: HarperCollins), pp. 493-546
Punnett, R. M. (1990) ‘Selecting a Leader and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party: The
Future of the Electoral College’, Parliamentary Affairs 43 (2): 179-95
Punnett, R. M. (1992) Selecting the Party Leader: Britain in Comparative Perspective
(Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf), pp. 80-129
Quinn, Thomas (2004) ‘Electing the Leader: The British Labour Party’s Electoral College’,
British Journal of Politics and International Relations 6 (3): 333-52
Quinn, Thomas (2004) Modernising the Labour Party: Organisational Change since 1983
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 121-42
Quinn, Thomas (2005) ‘Leasehold or Freehold? Leader-Eviction Rules in the British
Conservative and Labour Parties’, Political Studies 53 (4): 793-815
Quinn, Thomas (2012) Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan), pp. 57-96
Rawnsley, Andrew (2010) The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour (London:
Penguin/Viking), pp. 556-74, 637-59
Rentoul, John (1995) Tony Blair (London: Little Brown & Co), pp. 353-405
Routledge, Paul (1998) Gordon Brown: The Biography (London: Simon & Schuster), pp.
189-210
Russell, Meg (2005) Building New Labour: The Politics of Party Organisation (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 34-66
Seldon, Anthony (2005) Blair (London: Free Press), pp. 179-99
Seldon, Anthony (2008) Blair Unbound (London: Pocket Books), pp. 479-99
Seldon, Anthony and Guy Lodge (2010) Brown at 10 (London: Biteback), pp. 122-7, 134-8,
270-8, 382-96
Stark, Leonard P. (1996) Choosing a Leader: Party Leadership Contests in Britain from
Macmillan to Blair (Basingstoke: Macmillan), pp. 36-66
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CONSERVATIVE PARTY
Alderman, Keith (1996) ‘The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 1995’,
Parliamentary Affairs 49 (2): 316-32
Alderman, Keith (1998) ‘The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 1997’,
Parliamentary Affairs 51 (1): 1-16
Alderman, Keith (1999) ‘Revision of Leadership Election Procedures in the Conservative
Party’, Parliamentary Affairs 52 (2): 260-74
Alderman, Keith and Neil Carter (1991) ‘A Very Tory Coup: The Ousting of Mrs Thatcher’,
Parliamentary Affairs 44 (2): 125-39
Alderman, Keith and Neil Carter (2002) ‘The Conservative Party Leadership Election of
2001’, Parliamentary Affairs 55 (4): 569-85
Alderman, Keith and Martin J. Smith (1990) ‘Can British Prime Ministers be Given the Push
by their Parties?’, Parliamentary Affairs 43 (3): 260-76
Bale, Tim (2010) The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron (Cambridge: Polity),
pp. 254-82
Bogdanor, Vernon (1994) ‘The Selection of the Party Leader’, in Anthony Seldon and Stuart
Ball (eds), Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900 (Oxford: Oxford
University Press), pp. 69-96
Cowley, Philip (1996) ‘How Did He Do That? The Second Round of the 1990 Conservative
Leadership Election’, in David Farrell, David Broughton, David Denver and Justin Fisher
(eds), British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1996 (London: Frank Cass), pp. 198-216
Cowley, Philip (1997) ‘Just William? A Supplementary Analysis of the 1997 Conservative
Leadership Contest’, Talking Politics 9 (4): 91-5
Cowley, Philip and Matthew Bailey (2000) ‘Peasants’ Uprising or Religious War: Reexamining the 1975 Conservative Leadership Contest’, British Journal of Political Science
30 (4): 599-629
Cowley, Philip and John Garry (1998) ‘The British Conservative Party and Europe: The
Choosing of John Major’, British Journal of Political Science 28 (3): 473-99
Cowley, Philip and Jane Green (2005) ‘New Leaders, Same Problems: The Conservatives’, in
Andrew Geddes and Jonathan Tonge (eds), Britain Decides: The UK General Election
2005 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 46-68
Crick, Michael (1997) Michael Heseltine: A Biography (London: Hamish Hamilton), pp.
337-59, 413-19
Crick, Michael (2005) In Search of Michael Howard, (London: Simon and Schuster), pp.
364-90, 418-34
Denham, Andrew (2009) ‘From Grey Suits to Grass Roots: Choosing Conservative Leaders’,
British Politics 4 (2): 217-35
Denham, Andrew (2010) ‘Hague Rules, OK? Electing and Ejecting Conservative Leaders’,
Representation 46 (1): 81-9
Denham, Andrew and Peter Dorey (2007) ‘A Tale of Two Speeches: The Conservative
Leadership Election’, Political Quarterly 78 (1): 35-41
Denham, Andrew and Kieron O’Hara (2008) Democratising Conservative Leadership
Selection: From Grey Suits to Grass Roots (Manchester: Manchester University Press)
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Elliott, Francis and James Hanning (2009) Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative
(London: Harper Perennial), pp. 262-97
Hayton, Richard and Timothy Heppell (2010) ‘The Quiet Man of British Politics: the Rise,
Fall and Significance of Iain Duncan Smith’, Parliamentary Affairs 63 (3): 425-45
Heppell, Timothy (2008) Choosing the Tory Leader: Conservative Party Leadership
Elections from Heath to Cameron (London: IB Tauris)
Heppell, Timothy and Michael Hill (2008) ‘The Conservative Party Leadership Election of
1997: An Analysis of the Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians’, British
Politics 3 (1): 63-91
Heppell, Timothy and Michael Hill (2009) ‘Transcending Thatcherism? Ideology and the
Conservative Party Leadership Mandate of David Cameron’, Political Quarterly 80 (3):
388-99
Heppell, Timothy and Michael Hill (2010) ‘The Voting Motivations of Conservative
Parliamentarians in the Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2001’, Politics 30 (1):
36-51
Heseltine, Michael (2000) Life in the Jungle: My Autobiography (London: Hodder &
Stoughton), pp. 361-74
Howe, Geoffrey (1994) Conflict of Loyalty (London: Macmillan), pp. 655-76
Jenkins, Peter (1970) The Battle of Downing Street (London: Charles Knight & Co.), pp. 98123
Jones, George W. (1995) ‘The Downfall of Margaret Thatcher’, in R.A.W. Rhodes and
Patrick Dunleavy (eds), Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive (Basingstoke:
Macmillan), pp. 87-107
Kelly, Richard (1995) ‘Why Can’t All Tories Elect Their Leader?’, Parliamentary Brief 4 (1)
Kelly, Richard (1996) ‘Choosing Tory Leaders’, Politics Review 6 (1)
Kelly, Richard (2003) ‘Organisational Reform and the Extra-Parliamentary Party’, in Mark
Garnett and Philip Lynch (eds), The Conservatives in Crisis (Manchester: Manchester
University Press), pp. 82-106
Major, John (1999) John Major: The Autobiography (London: Harper Collins), pp. 167-201,
608-47
McSweeney, Dean (1999) ‘Changing the Rules Changed the Game: Selecting Conservative
Leaders’, Party Politics 5 (4): 471-83
Norton, Philip (1990) ‘Choosing a Leader: Margaret Thatcher and the Parliamentary
Conservative Party’, Parliamentary Affairs 43 (3): 249-59
Norton, Philip (1996) ‘The Party Leader’, in Philip Norton (ed.), The Conservative Party
(London: Prentice Hall-Harvester Wheatsheaf), pp. 142-56
Punnett, R. M. (1992) Selecting the Party Leader: Britain in Comparative Perspective
(Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf), pp. 26-79
Quinn, Thomas (2005) ‘Leasehold or Freehold? Leader-Eviction Rules in the British
Conservative and Labour Parties’, Political Studies 53 (4): 793-815
Quinn, Thomas (2010) ‘Membership Ballots in Party Leadership Elections in Britain’,
Representation 46 (1): 101-17
Quinn, Thomas (2012) Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan), pp. 39-44, 97-130
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Snowdon, Peter (2010) Back from the Brink: The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection
(London: Harper Press), pp. 42-5, 81-8, 113-31, 164-210
Stark, Leonard P. (1996) Choosing a Leader: Party Leadership Contests in Britain from
Macmillan to Blair (Basingstoke: Macmillan), pp. 10-35, 167-72
Stuart, Mark (1998) Douglas Hurd: The Public Servant – An Authorised Biography
(Edinburgh & London: Mainstream Publishing), pp. 251-70
Thatcher, Margaret (1993) The Downing Street Years (London: Harper Collins), pp. 829-62
Walters, Simon (2001) Tory Wars: Conservatives in Crisis (London: Politico’s), pp. 206-27
Watkins, Alan (1998) A Conservative Coup: The Fall of Margaret Thatcher, 2nd ed. (London:
Duckworth), pp. 156-77
Wickham-Jones, Mark (1997) ‘Right Turn: A Revisionist Account of the 1975 Conservative
Party Leadership Election’, Twentieth Century British History 8 (1): 74-89
Young, Hugo (1993) One of Us, 3rd ed. (London: Pan Books), pp. 571-91
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LIBERAL PARTY, SDP AND LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
Alderman, Keith and Neil Carter (2000) ‘The Liberal Democrat Leadership Election of
1999’, Parliamentary Affairs 53 (2): 311-27
Brack, Duncan (2007) ‘Liberal Democrat Leadership: The Cases of Ashdown and Kennedy’,
Political Quarterly 78 (1): 78-88
Brack, Duncan (2008) ‘Reviews: Leader Out of Time’, Journal of Liberal Democrat History
60: 45-8
Campbell, Menzies (2008) Menzies Campbell: My Autobiography (London: Hodder and
Stoughton), pp. 227-52
Crewe, Ivor and Anthony King (1995) SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social
Democratic Party (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 146-66
Denham, Andrew and Peter Dorey (2006) ‘The “Caretaker” Cleans Up: The Liberal
Democrat Leadership Election of 2006’, Parliamentary Affairs 60 (1): 26-45
Francis, Matthew (2010) ‘The “Bland Leading the Bland”: Electing the Liberal Democrat
Leader, 1988-2007’, Representation 46 (1): 91-100
Hurst, Geoff (2006) Charles Kennedy: A Tragic Flaw (London: Politico’s), pp. 1-23, 218-42
McAnulla, Stuart (2009) ‘Explaining the Forced Exit of Charles Kennedy: Pushing the
Public-Private Boundary’, Politics 29 (1): 37-44
Punnett, R. M. (1992) Selecting the Party Leader: Britain in Comparative Perspective
(Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf), pp. 130-53
Quinn, Thomas (2010) ‘Membership Ballots in Party Leadership Elections in Britain’,
Representation 46 (1): 101-17
Quinn, Thomas (2012) Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan), pp. 131-57
Russell, Andrew, Ed Fieldhouse and David Cutts (2007) ‘De facto Veto? The Parliamentary
Liberal Democrats’, Political Quarterly 78 (1): 89-98
Smith, Harriet (1999) ‘The 1988 Leadership Campaign’, Journal of Liberal Democrat
History 24: 18-22
Stark, Leonard P. (1996) Choosing a Leader: Party Leadership Contests in Britain from
Macmillan to Blair (Basingstoke: Macmillan), pp. 67-80
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GENERAL
Bale, Tim and Paul Webb, ‘The Selection of Party Leaders in the UK’, in Jean-Benoit Pilet
and William Cross (eds), The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary
Parliamentary Democracies: A Comparative Study (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 1229.
Cross, William and Andre Blais, ‘Holding Party Leaders to Account: The Westminster
Cases’, in Paul ‘t Hart and John Uhr (eds), How Power Changes Hands: Transition and
Succession in Government (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 133-56.
Cross, William and Andre Blais (2012) ‘Who Selects the Party Leader?’, Party Politics 18
(2): 127-50
Cross, William and Andre Blais (2012) Politics at the Centre: The Selection and Removal of
Party Leaders in the Anglo Parliamentary Democracies (Oxford: Oxford University
Press)
Davis, J. W. (1998) Leadership Selection in Six Western Democracies (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press)
Denham, Andrew (2013) ‘From Coronations to Close Encounters: Party Leadership Selection
in British Politics’, British Politics, online advance access, 25 February 2013, doi:
10.1057/bp.2013.3
Kenig, Ofer (2009) ‘Classifying Party Leaders’ Selection Methods in Parliamentary
Democracies’, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 19 (4): 433-47
Kenig, Ofer (2009) ‘Democratization of Party Leadership Selection: Do Wider Selectorates
Produce More Competitive Contests?’, Electoral Studies 28 (2): 240-7
Horiuchi, Yusaku, Matthew Laing and Paul 't Hart (2013) ‘Hard Acts to Follow: Predecessor
Effects on Party Leader Survival’, Party Politics, online advance access, 30 January
2013, doi:10.1177/1354068812472577
Laing, Matthew and Paul ‘t Hart, ‘Seeking and Keeping the Hot Seat: A Comparative
Analysis of Party Leader Successions’, in Paul ‘t Hart and John Uhr (eds), How Power
Changes Hands: Transition and Succession in Government (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2011), pp. 111-32.
LeDuc, Lawrence (2001) ‘Democratizing Party Leadership Selection’, Party Politics 7 (3):
323-41
Pilet, Jean-Benoit and William Cross (eds), The Selection of Political Party Leaders in
Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies: A Comparative Study (London: Routledge,
2014).
Punnett, R. M. (1992) Selecting the Party Leader: Britain in Comparative Perspective
(Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf)
Punnett, R. M. (1993) ‘Selecting the Party Leader in Britain: A Limited Participatory
Revolution’, European Journal of Political Research 24 (3): 257-76
Quinn, Thomas (2012) Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan)
Stark, Leonard P. (1996) Choosing a Leader: Party Leadership Contests in Britain from
Macmillan to Blair (Basingstoke: Macmillan)
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NOTE
If there is a text that you believe should be added to this list (perhaps one of your own!),
please contact the compiler:
Dr Thomas Quinn
Department of Government
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
Email: tquinn followed by @essex.ac.uk
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