What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have
in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of …

The implications of the personalization of politics are necessarily widespread and can be
found across many different aspects of contemporary democracies. Personalization should …

Our aim is to propose guidelines for the analysis of political personalization and
personalized politics in general and for behavioural personalization in particular. The first …

With the weakening of the structural determinants of politics in Western democracies, it is
commonly assumed that individual politicians and politicians as individuals have come to …

Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies brings together insights
from the worlds of party politics and public administration in order to analyze the role of …

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 …

This article describes two opposing types of political personalization: centralizing and
decentralizing personalization. The first implies the centralization of political power in the …

Democracies in general and political parties in particular have undergone political
personalization in recent decades. The power balance between politicians (one or many) …

One of the key shifts in contemporary politics is the trend towards greater personalization.
Collective actors such as political parties are losing relevance. Citizens are slowly …

For more than a century party members have played a central role in many parliamentary
democracies, helping political parties to mobilize voters, and visibly linking party leaders …