Gideon Rahat, Ofer Kenig

From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?

Party Change and Political Personalization in Democracies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volumes examines two major developments in contemporary democratic politics¿ the change in party-society linkage and political personalization¿and their relation to each other.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780198808008
• ISBN-10: 0198808003
• Artikelnr.: 51966893

Autorenporträt

Gideon Rahat is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research fields are comparative politics and Israeli politics. His interests include political parties, electoral reform, the personalization of politics and candidate selection methods, and he has published widely on the politics of electoral reform and co-authored books on candidate selection methods. Ofer Kenig is a Senior Lecturer at Ashkelon Academic College and a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. His areas of research include comparative politics, political parties, leadership and candidate selection and Israeli politics. He co-authored the books Reforming the Israel Political System (2013) and The Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections (2016). In addition, he has published articles in a range of journals, including Electoral Studies and Representation, as well as chapters in edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* Part One: Party Change
* 2: Party Change: The Variance Hiding Behind the General Trend
* 3: Indicators of Party Change
* 4: The Presence and Success of National-Level Parties in Local and
Regional Elections
* 5: A Cross-National Comparison of Party Change
* Part Two: Political Personalization
* 6: Political Personalization: Definition, Typology, and Causes
* 7: Indicators of Political Personalization
* 8: Parties vs. Politicians Online
* 9: A Cross-National Analysis of Political Personalization
* Part Three: Party Change and Political Personalization
* 10: Party Change and Political Personalization: A Critical Overview
of the Literature
* 11: Party Change and Political Personalization: An Empirical Analysis
* 12: Summary and Conclusions
* Appendices