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 …

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

Existing research has begun to tackle the electoral consequences of affective polarization
through the lens of negative partisanship. However, not equal attention has been paid to …

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 …

The increased use of social media has triggered a visual shift in digital political
communication. One central strategy is visual (self-) personalization and many studies have …

Charismatic leaders are often assumed to drive the electoral success of populist radical right
parties. Yet, little attention is given to how voter evaluations of leaders influence individual …

Personalisation of politics entails that political individuals become more important at the
expense of political groups. This development is perceived as one of the most important …

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 …

Since the end of World War II, democracies typically fell apart by coup d'? tat or through
force. Today, however, they are increasingly eroding at the hands of democratically elected …

Western democracies' voting practices have altered recently, most notably with candidates
now taking center stage at the expense of the institutions. These events are the result of a …