Leaders without Partisans: Dealignment, Media Change, and the Personalization of Politics

by Frederico Ferreira de Silva, Diego Garzia, Andrea De Angelis

Leaders without Partisans examines the changing impact of party leader evaluations on voters' behavior in parliamentary elections. The decline of traditional social cleavages, the pervasive mediatization of the political scene, and the media's growing tendency to portray politics in "personalistic" terms all led to the hypothesis that leaders matter more for the way individuals vote and, often, the way elections turn out. This study offers the most...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538156768
• ISBN13: 9781538156766
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: ECPR Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"