Election campaigns are not only party campaigns, but depend to a significant degree on the
efforts and activities of individual candidates. While some country-specific analyses of …

Using the Comparative Candidate Survey, we study candidate campaigns and aim to
contribute to the ongoing research on how campaigns take on different characteristics in …

In recent years, political parties have reacted to far-reaching transformations in their media
and sociocultural environments. These changes and adaptations, often assembled under …

Personalization of politics is a major topic in discussions about elections and electoral
behavior. Does the personalization of politics imply an individualization of campaigning as …

Constituency campaigns are important phenomena for students of political parties, voting
behaviour as well as political communication. These research communities perceive …

The importance and electoral impact of campaigning at constituency level is now widely
accepted. A variety of different research teams have repeatedly demonstrated the electoral …

The literature on professionalization of political campaigns is strongly biased toward first-
order (national) elections and the US and UK contexts. This study expands that scope …

Abstract Candidates to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives vary considerably with
regard to the extent to which they run personalized campaigns. However, very few …

The context of the 2015 general election suggested that the electoral impact of parties'
constituency campaigns could vary as a consequence in particular of the relative …

The “second-order” nature of European Parliament (EP) elections means that any study of
election campaigning for the EP may seem pointless. Recent data from the 2006 MEP …