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Author Karvonen, Lauri.

Title The personalisation of politics : a study of parliamentary democracies / Lauri Karvonen
Published Colchester : ECPR Press, 2010

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Description 124 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series ECPR monographs
ECPR monographs.
Contents Contents note continued: Finland: campaign advertisements -- Summary and conclusions -- Conclusion: Is there a personalisation of politics? -- No pervasive trend, many indications -- Positive cases -- Mixed-positive cases -- Mixed-negative cases -- Negative cases -- Cases based on a single indicator -- Reflections
Machine generated contents note: Focus and scope -- Why personalisation? -- What is personalisation? -- Taking stock of research -- Summing up: directions for further research -- Plan of the book -- ch. one Institutions and personalisation -- Prime ministers in parliamentary democracies -- More candidate-centred electoral systems? -- Summary and conclusions -- ch. two Have individual candidates become more prominent? -- Flexible-list systems -- Systems with compulsory preference voting -- Ticket-splitting in a mixed-member system: Germany -- Systems without candidate choice: Britain and Norway -- Summary and conclusions -- ch. three Leaders and citizens -- Previous research says ̀€no' -- Research questions -- Six parliamentary democracies, 1961-2001 -- Party switchers and party leaders -- Summary and conclusions -- ch. four How politics is presented: media and personalisation -- Britain: Prime ministers in The Times -- Sweden: party leaders, election campaigns and the press --
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [109]-114) and index
Subject Democracy -- Europe.
Personality and politics.
SUBJECT Europe -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045733
LC no. 2010362843
ISBN 1907301038
9781907301032