Partisan Dealignment and the Personalization of Politics in West European Parliamentary Democracies, 1961-2016

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Written by Diego Garzia, Frederico Ferreira da Silva, Andrea De Angelis 11 October 2018

This article examines the relationship between partisan dealignment and the “personalization of politics” and looks into the “claim that leader effects on voting behaviour are increasing across time” (Garzia, Ferreira da Silva, De Angelis, 2018).

Publisher: Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine

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