Party organizer
Encyclopedia
A party organizer or local party organizer is a position in some political parties
in charge of the establishing a party organization in a certain locality.
Herbert Ames
wrote in his 1911 article "Organization of Political Parties in Canada" :
Political Parties
Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy is a book by sociologist Robert Michels, published in 1911 , and first introducing the concept of iron law of oligarchy...
in charge of the establishing a party organization in a certain locality.
Herbert Ames
Herbert Ames
Sir Herbert Brown Ames was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and politician.Ames was born in Montreal as the only son of Evan Fisher Ames and Caroline Matilda Brown.Ames inherited the family shoe company and later worked in insurance but used much of his fortune to help the...
wrote in his 1911 article "Organization of Political Parties in Canada" :
It is the aim of the party to have every county in CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
come under the supervision of some permanent organization. <...> A central office <...> is created for such a group. Here is installed a salaried official, party organizer. His duty is to revive existing local political organizations throughout the constituencies, to assist their members by correspondence and occasional visits, and, where there is as yet no political club, to gather together the sympathetic, and aid in forming a working combination. The main objective of the party organizer is to create the machinery whereby a truly representative convention may be convened, and acceptable candidate chosen, and the organization for securing success at the polls brought into being.