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Leadership Selection in Six Western Democracies.(Review) (book review)

American Political Science Review,  December, 2000  by Elgie, Robert

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By James W. Davis. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. 232p. $65.00.

The aim of this book is to fill an information gap concerning leadership selection in the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, and Australia. In this respect, the author is no doubt successful. After all, comparative studies of this sort are rare, although the appearance of a special edition of the European Journal of Political Research (vol. 24, no. 3, 1993) dedicated to this theme suggests that academics are at last beginning to pay it some much needed attention,

The main argument is that across all ...

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