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 …

This article develops and tests a number of competing expectations (institutional, party and
individual) about what influenced the campaign activity of individual parliamentary …

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 …

The individualization of politics is usually studied in relation to party leaders. Using new data
from the Norwegian Candidate Survey 2009 and in-depth interviews with 29 top candidates …

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

This article investigates the impact of pan-European candidates in European Parliament
election campaigns. It focusses on the two 2019 nominees for the European Greens, who …

A second factor behind the rise of campaign research related to studies in an electoral
behavior tradition: there was a growing realization, by politicians and political scientists, that …

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 …

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