Interesting piece by Meg Russell. Problem is that that ship has sailed, for better or worse.
What would be interesting would be a cross-country study of the effect in Parliamentary democracies of having leaders chosen by party members. It is now, after all, pretty standard in most of them.
My hypothesis is that FPTP tempts activists in the major parties to vote for “true believers”: but if you are in a PR system and know power will come only with a coalition or by getting >50% of the vote, voting for purity of belief and refusal to compromise makes little sense.
