Administration, leadership and leader changing in ruling parties: Group of Eight and Turkey after World War II

Political parties need voters and supporters as well as responsible staff in order to maintain a successful political life. Political parties can only reach to their goals by having a strong and active organizational structure, decision makers and executive branches as well as voters and supporters who work with cohesion.Political parties should be constructed by some principles in the democratic countries. To comply with democratic principles in every stage of the organization, membership, chairperson and leader selection have to be effective in order to pave the way for power.So, the regulation of the membership process, right and responsibility of the members, the election procedure of the members, the dispersion process of congressman to the party organizations, chairmen of the local party organizations, governing body of the party and selection and tenure of the chairperson and the leader have been analyzed in this thesis.In order to draw a limited framework for the research, only democratic countries have been selected as the area of the research and the research has been especially focused on the G-8 and Turkey. The parties this countries which have been in power after the Second World War are selected for investigation.