A Study of Parliamentary Democracies
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Köp båda 2 för 866 krLauri Karvonen is Professor of Political Science at Abo Akademi, Finland, and Director of Democracy: A Citizen Perspective (D:CE, a Centre of Excellence in Research on Democracy). His previous books include Fragmentation and Consensus (1993) and Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisited(2001). He has published articles in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Theoretical Politics, International Political Science Review and Party Politics.
contents Introduction 1 Focus and scope 2 Why personalisation? 4 What is personalisation? 4 Taking stock of research 5 Summing up: directions for further research 14 Plan of the book 21 Chapter one: Institutions and personalisation 23 Prime ministers in parliamentary democracies 25 More candidate-centred electoral systems? 35 Summary and conclusions 40 Chapter two: Have individual candidates become more prominent? 41 Flexible-list systems 43 Systems with compulsory preference voting 49 Ticket-splitting in a mixed-member system: Germany 58 Systems without candidate choice: Britain and Norway 60 Summary and conclusions 62 Chapter three: Leaders and citizens 65 Previous research says `no' 66 Research questions 68 Six parliamentary democracies, 1961-2001 69 Party switchers and party leaders 81 Summary and conclusions 84 Chapter four: How politics is presented: media and personalisation 85 Britain: Prime ministers in The Times 87 Sweden: party leaders, election campaigns and the press 93 Finland: campaign advertisements 96 Summary and conclusions 99 Conclusion: Is there a personalisation of politics? 101 No pervasive trend, many indications 101 Positive cases 102 Mixed-positive cases 103 Mixed-negative cases 104 Negative cases 105 Cases based on a single indicator 105 Refl ections 106 Bibliography 109 Index 117