[EL] Replacing Theresa May

[Pildes, Rick]

Steven,
If you want to understand how different democracies in different systems, such as parliamentary ones, structure the process of choosing party leaders or candidates for chief executive, I've written an article on this with Stephen Gardbaum, which can be found here<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3064938>  - one of the aims of the article is to show how much of an outlier the post-1970s system in the United States is, with our purely voter controlled primaries and caucuses that leave no distinct legal role for elected party figures in the nominations process.

Best,
Rick

Richard H. Pildes
Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law
NYU School of Law
40 Washington Sq. So.
NYC, NY 10012
212 998-6377

From: Law-election [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Steven John Mulroy (smulroy)
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 10:52 PM
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Subject: [EL] Replacing Theresa May


I understand that this mid-term replacement will be accomplished by a vote just among Conservative Party leaders plus some grass-roots members around the country.  Can someone more familiar with parliamentary systems explain how common this is? I thought that replacing a prime minister normally triggers an election.  Or, if not an election, then just a choice among the PMs from the majority party.  How typical or unusual is this apparently hybrid British approach?
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