Party Leaders and their Selection Rules in Western Europe
This book analyses the determinants behind the openings in party leader selection rules (leaders selectorate) in 10 Western European countries and more than 55 parties between the mid-1980s and the mid-2010s.
Presenting a novel and revealing theoretical and empirical framework, it tackles the impact of party change and the personalisation of politics, specifically using data coming from the first expert survey on the personalisation of politics in Western Europe; the PoPES. A quantitative analysis is paired with more in-depth explorations of two Italian parties (the Italian Communist Party - Democratic Party of the Left; the Northern League) and the (missed) opening of their leader selectorate. This book highlights the critical importance of studying party leader selection rules against the backdrop of allegedly declining parties and rising party leaders and concludes by placing its findings in a broader discussion about the future of Western European party leaders.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party systems, leadership, political elites, elections, democracy, and more widely of Western European politics and comparative politics.
Bruno Marino is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Bologna, Italy.
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Party Leaders and their Selection Rules in Western Europe
Bruno Marino
Party Leaders and their Selection Rules in Western Europe
Bruno Marino
First published 2022
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Marino, Bruno, (Political scientist), author.
Title: Party leaders and their selection rules in Western Europe / Bruno Marino.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
Series: Routledge studies on political parties and party systems |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021013619 (print) | LCCN 2021013620 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367695439 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367695453 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003142218 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Political leadershipEurope, Western. |
Political partiesEurope, Western.
Classification: LCC JN30 .M347 2022 (print) |
LCC JN30 (ebook) | DDC 324.2/2094dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021013619
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021013620
ISBN: 978-0-367-69543-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-69545-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-14221-8 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003142218
Typeset in Times New Roman
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Contents
Appendix A: List of countries and parties
Appendix B: Specifications on variables operationalisation
This book would have not been written without the help and support of many people. First of all, the book is based on my PhD dissertation, and professors and lecturers at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) helped me improve my knowledge and research ability in different ways. I also thank the PhD committee members. A special thank you shall go to Benedetta Carlotti and Ivan Stefanovski, colleagues and friends while I was doing my PhD. Moreover, many people at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles have really helped me during my research: among them, Camille Bedock, Caroline Close, Fernanda Flacco, Emilie van Haute, Camille Kelbel, Marco Ognibene, and Jean-Benoit Pilet.
Many scholars have helped me in collecting data or shaping the research project, at different stages and in different ways: Manuela Caiani, Cees van der Eijk, Costas Eleftheriou, Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, Florence Faucher, Emilie van Haute, Helene Helboe-Pedersen, Piero Ignazi, Ofer Kenig, Martijn van Nijnanten, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Luca Pinto, Gideon Rahat, Isabella Razzuoli, Lamprini Rori, Christophe Roux, and Federico Vegetti I also thank Luca Carrieri and Mimmo Carrieri.
Furthermore, my PhD co-supervisor, Giliberto Capano has greatly helped me in shaping the PhD dissertation project. My PhD supervisor, Luca Verzichelli, has been really supportive while devising the PhD dissertation project and writing this book, with many suggestions and comments. Vincenzo Emanuele and Nicola Martocchia Diodati provided me with constant help and support throughout this long endeavour.
I also thank the Series Editors Ingrid van Biezen and Fernando Casal Brtoa Sophie Iddamalgoda, Rosemary Morlin, and Andrew Taylor.
I had planned to dedicate this work to Gino, Rosa, and Maria Laura, but a fourth person shall be added: Francesca. Thank you.
