Description
Those interested in election campaigns, voting, gender, governance, legislative behaviour, and political parties will all find something of value in the contributions that follow.
Chapter
Personalization and Personalized Politics
Our Animating Questions and Key Themes
Personalization, Personalism and Electoral Systems
Electoral Systems and (Decentralized) Personalization
A Trend towards More Personalized Electoral Systems in Europe
The Origins of Electoral Systems Personalization
Exploring the Consequences of Personalized Electoral Systems
Conclusions: Electoral Systems, Personalization and the Role of Political Parties
The Personalization of Parliamentary Elections?1
The Increasingly Important Role of Leaders in Elections?
Attitudes about Party Leaders in Britain and Canada
Effects of Party Leaders on Vote Choice
Personalism and Election Campaigning
Personalization and the ‘Party’ Campaign
Personalization and the ‘Local’ Campaign
Primaries and the Personalization of Party Leadership
The Primary Model: US Primaries
Methods of Leadership Selection
Personalized Politics Online
Offline and Online Personalized Politics in the Controlled Media and in Voters’ Behaviour: A Comparison
Research Questions and Hypotheses
Findings of the Cross-National Comparison
Personalized Politics of Facebook Posts: The Israeli Case
Party Organization and Personalization
Party Organization and Personalization: A Top-Down Perspective
Personalization and Individual Participation: A ‘Bottom-Up’ View
Empirical Evidence of
Bottom-Up Personalization
Conclusions: The Consequences of Bottom-Up
Personalization for Party Organizations
Exploring the Role of Decentralized
Personalization for Legislative Behaviour and Constituency Representation1
Constituency Service Enhanced by Campaign Personalization
Personalization, Personal Authority and Governance1
Personal Authority in the Westminster Model
Conclusions: Personal Authority and Parties
Presidentialization, Personalization and Populism
The Presidentialization Thesis
Presidentialization and Personalization
The Future of Presidentialization and Party Government
Personalism, Personalization and Gender
Gendering Personalism and Personalization
Institutional Personalism, Personalization and Gender
Media Personalism, Personalization, and Gender
Behavioural Personalism, Personalization and Gender
The Problem of Privatization
Personalization, Party Government and Democracy
Personalization at the Top
Personalization in Parliament and Parliamentary Elections
Personalization within Parties
Personalization and Representation