Leader evaluations and partisan stereotypes : a comparative analysis / Amanda Bittner -- What comes first, character traits or political assessments? An experimental study / Sascha Huber -- The impact of leaders in parliamentary and presidential regimes / John Curtice and Marco Lisi -- Personality politics in single-party and coalition governments / Solidea Formichelli -- Leader effects and party polarization / Romain Lachat -- Political sophistication and media consumption as factors of personalization / Guillem Rico -- Party dealignment and leader effects / Marina Costa Lobo -- Between leadership and charisma, the importance of leaders / Michael Lewis-Beck and Richard Nadeau -- Determining the components of leader effects in a post-Communist context / Andrei Gheorghiță -- Emotions towards leaders and voting behaviour / Tatjana Rudi.
Summary:
Assesses the role that voters''perceptions and evaluations of leaders play in democratic elections. The book presents evidence from an array of countries with diverse historical and institutional contexts, and employs innovative methodologies to determine the importance of leaders in democracies worldwide.--Provided by publishers.
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