Early in the 1950s my parents tired of summer holidays mostly spent on chilly wind-swept
beaches and embarked, with hire car, tents, and four young children, on what was, in the …

Indian party politics, commonly viewed as chaotic, clientelistic, and corrupt, is nevertheless a
model for deepening democracy and accommodating diversity. Historically, though …

Using an innovative framework for the study of voting behavior in parliamentary
democracies, this book sheds new light on the ongoing personalization of politics. The …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 While Ireland was once perceived as being characterised by
conservatism, Catholicism and cultural isolation, by the first decades of the twenty-first century …

Coming out of the 2000 Canadian federal election, the dominance of the Liberal Party
seemed assured. By 2011 the situation had completely reversed: the Liberals suffered a …

Research on the leaderships and electorates of populist right-wing parties emphasizes that
most of these parties are charismatic and male-dominated, both as regards their leaderships …

Partisan dealignment is recurrently presented in the literature as one of the main drivers of
the 'personalisation of politics'. Yet, on the one hand, the claim that leader effects on voting …

This book examines changes in voters' electoral choices over time and investigates how
these changes are linked to a growth in electoral volatility. Ruth Dassonneville's core …

Why are some political leaders stronger than others? How do we make sense of the
interaction between the leader's personality and the context that the leader faces? This book …

This article provides an empirical assessment of the causal structure underlying the core
dependent variable of electoral research (the vote) and two of its most notable predictors …