Download or read book Politics at the Centre written by William P. Cross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics at the Centre studies the ways in which political parties select and remove their leaders in five parliamentary democracies: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. It addresses the subject through cross national comparison of 25 parties in these countries from 1965 to the present day.