The Reserch Of The Evolution In The Labour Leadership Election System

The leadership election system is an important part of the Labour party organization system and plays an irreplaceable role in maintaining the steady development of the Labour Party.Labour leadership election system has arised from nothing,changing itself from the parliamentary election to the electoral college voting,and becomes the Electroal College System at last along with a century of development.The profound shift in the Labour leadership election system is closely related to its political transformation.The Labour leadership election system is an significant step for the Labour party to cope with its development,and keep footholds on political arena.Being influenced by the political democratization trend of the party politics all over the world and the progressive improvement traditional cultures,the change of the leadership election system is directional-democratization and progressive-conservatization.The British Labor Party was born out of the British Labor Movement,which didn't perfect the construction of the leadership election system owing to the weak political forces and the lack of organizational system in the initial period of its founding.After a period of great-leap-forward development during the first World War,the Labour Party formulated the party programme and party constitution with distinct ideology,and gradually rised in British politics,besides,it firstly became a party out of power in the 1992 general election.Afterwards,the highest leadership authority of the leaders in parliamentary groups was also clear,and then the Labour Party's leadership system that the parliamentary groups selecting the leaders was established.In the 1970 s,the contradiction within the Labour Party intensified.The Left began to gain the upper hand in the struggle against the Rright,in order to further expand its comparative advantage over the Right,the Left began to striving for strengthening its influence on the decisions of party affairs through the organizational system reform of Labor Party.After several setbacks,the Labour Party's leadership election system completed a major change from the parliamentary-groups-based election system to the electoral-college-based electoral system.The inner-party clique struggle reached to anincandescence situation in the early 1980 s,which seriously eroded the strength of the Labor Party and even caused the Labour Party to be frothy.Faced with the severe and complicated situation,the reform of the Labor Party system was imminent.After Kinnock became the leader of the Labor Party,he started the process of remolding the Labour Party and defined the development goal of the modern population-election-type political party.The leadership election system became the focus of reform in the democratic construction of the party.Through the unremitting efforts of successive leaders of the Labour Party,the voting principle of "one person,one vote" has been finally implemented in all parts of the electoral college,which has greatly promoted the democratic level of the organization system construction of the Labor Party.Throughout the evolution of the Labour Party's leadership election system,its distinctive conservative and progressive characteristics reflect the characteristics of the traditional British political ideology,and in the different stages of the Labour Party's development,it gives the imprint of the times--keeping pace with the times.That is,the leadership election system in different periods is in line with the development of the Labour Party.In addition,the democratization orientation runs through the evolution of the entire leadership election system.Among the factors affecting the evolution of the leadership election system of the Labor Party,the political objectives of the Labour Party in different periods provide the internal impetus for the leadership election system,and the relationship between the Labor Party and the Labor Union is intertwined.According to the relevant theory of party organization form,the party organization under different forms has different organizational system characteristics,which provides guidance for the process and direction of system construction.