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MAY'S LAW OF CURVILINEAR DISPARITY REVISITED: Leaders, Officers, Members and Voters in British Political Parties.
- Source :
- Party Politics; Jan95, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p29-47, 19p, 1 Diagram, 1 Chart, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 1995
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Abstract
- Explaining ideological conflict has always been a classic theme of studies of party organizations. The aim of this paper is to re-examine May's law, based on rational choice theory, which suggests that due to differential incentives sub-leaders are likely to prove the most extreme stratum in parry organizations, while non-leaders are the most moderate, and top leaders are located equidistant between these groups. The study, based on large-scale surveys of politicians, local constituency officers, party members and voters in the 1992 British general election, throws considerable doubt on this proposition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13540688
- Volume :
- 1
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Party Politics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 27614976
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068895001001002