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Political Leaders and Democratic Elections
Edited by Kees Aarts, André Blais, and Hermann Schmitt
256 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-925900-7
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Hardback
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10 March 2011
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- Based on comparative survey data from nine major democracies: US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, Spain, and Norway
- Contains contributions from some of the world's leading experts on the topic
Political Leaders and Democratic Elections unravels and evaluates the importance of political leaders in the vote decision. Outcomes of legislative elections are typically reported in terms of party support: how many votes and seats were obtained by each party? But in fact voters are faced with three choices which must be folded into one. They must decide which party they prefer, but in doing so they also choose among the policies advocated by these parties, and among the leaders who eventually have to enact them. This simple fact raises the question of the relative weight of these dimensions in vote choice, and particularly the relative
importance of leaders. Surprisingly, the question has been largely neglected in the vast literature on voting behavior. The dominant traditions in voting behavior focus on political parties and party identification, and on political issues and ideology respectively. This volume systematically assesses the role of political leaders in the vote decision in nine democracies (Australia, Britain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United States), over a period of up to 50 years, using election surveys. It assesses the changes in political communication (particularly the rise of televized politics) over the past decades. It explains how important political leaders are in different types of political systems. It shows that the electoral system and other political
institutions do affect the share of leader evaluations in vote choice. And it shows, in contrast with popular wisdom, how unimportant characteristics of the leaders themselves, characteristics of their parties, and characteristics of their voters are for vote choice. Finally, the volume shows that voters tend to let themselves be guided by the leaders they like rather than being pushed away from those they dislike.
Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political
Research. For more information visit: www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr
The Comparative Politics Series is edited by Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Kenneth Carty, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, and Professor Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Institute of Political Science, Philipps University, Marburg.Readership: Scholars and students of political science, especially comparative politics, electoral studies, political behaviour, public opinion, and political institutions
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Edited by Kees Aarts, Professor of Political Science, University of Twente, André Blais, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies, University of Montreal, and Hermann Schmitt, Professor of Political Science, University of Mannheim Contributors:
Bernt Aardal, Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo and Research Director of the Institute of Social Research
Kees Aarts, Professor of Political Science at the University of Twente and Scientific Director of the Institute of Innovation and Governance Studies
Tanja Binder, doctoral candidate in the
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, research unit Democracy: Structures, performance, challenges
André Blais, Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal
John Curtice, Professor of Politics and Deputy-Director of CREST, University of Strathclyde
Elisabeth Gidengil, Professor of Political Science at McGill University and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship
Sören Holmberg, Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg
Sarinder Hunjan, was affiliated with the Social Statistics Laboratory of the University of Strathclyde
Ian McAllister, Professor of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National
University
Richard Nadeau, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal
Neil Nevitte, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
Dieter Ohr, Professor of Methods of Empirical Social Research, Free University Berlin
Henrik Oscarsson, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg
Hermann Schmitt, Professor of Political Science at the University of Mannheim and Research Fellow at MZES
Martin P. Wattenberg, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine
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1: André Blais: Introduction
2: Dieter Ohr: Changing Patterns of Political Communication
3: Sören Holmberg and Henrik Oscarsson: Party Leader Effects on the Vote
4: Ian McAllister: Political Leaders in Westminster Systems -
5: Martin Wattenberg: US Party Leaders: Exploring the Meaning of Candidate-Centered Politics -
6: John Curtice: Elections as Beauty Contests
7: Bernt Aardal and Tanja Binder: Leader Effects and Party Characteristics
8: Richard Nadeau and Neil Nevitte: Leader Effects and Leader Characteristics
9: Elisabeth Gidengil: Voter Characteristics and Leader Effects
10: Kees Aarts and André Blais: Pull or Push? Positive and Negative Leader Evaluations and Vote Choice
11: Dieter Ohr and Henrik Oscarsson: Leader Traits, Leader Image and Vote Choice -
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