Date: 2014
Type: Book
Personalization of politics and electoral change
Houndmills ; Basingstoke ; Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, Palgrave studies in political psychology
GARZIA, Diego, Personalization of politics and electoral change, Houndmills ; Basingstoke ; Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, Palgrave studies in political psychology
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/29555
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The conventional wisdom that parliamentary elections are now, more than at any time in the past, determined by voters' assessments of party leaders has been fiercely contested by comparative electoral research. To overcome the obvious mismatch between customary expectations about the role of party leaders and the conclusions drawn by scholarly research in the field, this book provides an innovative framework for the study of voting behavior in light of the ongoing personalization of politics. Through analysis of election study data from Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, this book highlights the progressive inability of social-psychological models of voting to account for individuals' choices. Throughout the last four decades, voters' attitudes towards party leaders have apparently become a crucial determinant of their feelings of affinity with certain parties. Once the role of leaders as drivers of partisanship is taken into account, their electoral effect emerges as a force that can – more often than not – make the difference between victory and defeat.
Table of Contents:
-- Introduction 1
-- 1 The Personalization of Politics 5
-- 2 Attitudinal Consequences 23
-- 3 Behavioral Consequences 42
-- 4 Electoral Consequences 57
-- 5 Normative and Empirical Implications 78
-- Appendix A: Data Sources and Analytical Methods 90
-- Appendix B: Detailed model estimation procedures 106
-- Appendix C: Parties and party leaders in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands (1980–2010) 118
-- Notes 120
-- References 124
-- Index 136
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ISBN: 9781137270221
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan