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Party leaders and their selection rules in Western Europe / Bruno Marino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marino, Bruno (Political scientist), author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies on political parties and party systems
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political leadership--Europe, Western.
- Political leadership.
- Political parties--Europe, Western.
- Political parties.
- Western Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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
- 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
- Chapter 4
- explaining openings in party leader selection rules
- The empirical analysis
- A first discussion of the insights from the analysis
- 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
- 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: new opportunities for leaders and parties?
- Appendix A
- list of countries and parties
- Appendix B
- specifications on variables' operationalization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 28, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Marino, Bruno. Party leaders and their selection rules in Western Europe
- ISBN:
- 9781003142218
- 1003142214
- 9781000436563
- 100043656X
- 9781000436532
- 1000436535
- Publisher Number:
- 40030873174
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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