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Party leaders and their selection rules in Western Europe
Title
Party leaders and their selection rules in Western Europe / Bruno Marino.
ISBN
1000436535
100043656X
1003142214
9781000436532
9781000436563
9781003142218
036769543X
0367695456
9780367695439
9780367695453
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 28, 2021).
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"This book analyses the determinants behind the openings in party leader selection rules (leaders' selectorate) in 10 Western European countries and more than 55 parties between the mid-1980s and the mid-2010s. Presenting a novel and revealing theoretical and empirical framework, it tackles the impact of party change and the personalisation of politics, specifically using data coming from the first expert survey on the personalisation of politics in Western Europe; the PoPES. A quantitative analysis is paired with more in-depth explorations of two Italian parties (the Italian Communist Party - Democratic Party of the Left; the Northern League) and the (missed) opening of their leader selectorate. This book highlights the critical importance of studying party leader selection rules against the backdrop of allegedly declining parties and rising party leaders and concludes by placing its findings in a broader discussion about the future of Western European party leaders. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party systems, leadership, political elites, elections, democracy, and more widely of Western European politics and comparative politics"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Marino, Bruno. Party leaders and their selection rules in Western Europe Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Routledge studies on political parties and party systems
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: two takes, two stories
Chapter 1
leaders and parties in Western Europe
Party decline and the rise of party leaders
The focus on party leader selection rules
Limits and insights of existing studies
Party change, the personalisation of politics, and openings in party leader selection rules
Conclusions
Chapter 2
setting the ground: the opening of party leader selection rules
The dependent variable: party leader selectorate
Time and space: the case selection and the features of the party leader selectorates
The research question and the general framework of analysis
Conclusions
Chapter 3
the internal and external factors
The leadership change
The membership decline
The personalisation of politics (1): leaders' control of party organisations
Party family
The electoral setback
The opposition status
The contagion effect
The personalisation of politics (2): a general effect
Conclusions
Chapter 4
explaining openings in party leader selection rules
The empirical analysis
A first discussion of the insights from the analysis
Conclusions
Chapter 5
the PCI-PDS: the strength of ideology
Communist ideology and practices in the PCI
Leader selection in the PCI (and the early PDS): from Natta to Occhetto
The connection between the PCI and the PDS
The missed opening of the leader selectorate in the PDS in 1994
Ideology strikes back: the victory of D'Alema against Veltroni in 1994
Conclusions
Chapter 6
the Northern League: the consequences of intra-party divisions
The Northern League under Umberto Bossi
The 2012 events: the old guard passes the baton, or does not?
A divided party, a weaker leadership: the Northern League in 2013
The opening of the selectorate in the Northern League in 2013
The historical party leader and the rising star: Bossi vs Salvini in 2013
Conclusions
Conclusions: new opportunities for leaders and parties?
Appendix A
list of countries and parties
Appendix B
specifications on variables' operationalization.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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