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Faces on the Ballot - The Personalization of Electoral Systems in Europe (Hardcover)
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Faces on the Ballot - The Personalization of Electoral Systems in Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Politics
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One of the key shifts in contemporary politics is the trend towards
greater personalization. Collective actors such as political
parties are losing relevance. Citizens are slowly dealigning from
these actors, and individual politicians are therefore growing in
importance in elections, in government, within parties, and in
media reporting of politics. A crucial question concerns how this
new pattern could be restructuring politics over the long run -
notably, whether the personalization of politics is changing the
institutional architecture of contemporary democracies. The authors
show that the trend towards personalization is indeed changing core
democratic institutions. Studying the evolution of electoral
systems in thirty-one European democracies since 1945, they
demonstrate that, since the 1990s, there has been a shift towards
more personalized electoral systems. Electoral systems in most
European countries now allow voters to express preferences for
candidates, not just for political parties. And the weight of these
voters' preferences in the allocation of seats has been increased
in numerous countries. They examine the factors that appear to be
driving this evolution, finding that the personalization of
electoral systems is associated with the growing gap between
citizens and politics. Politicians and legislators appear to
perceive the personalization of electoral systems as a way to
address the democratic malaise and to restore trust in politics by
reducing the role of political parties in elections. The book also
shows, however, that whether these reforms have had any success in
achieving their aims is far less clear. 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.ecprnet.eu. The
Comparative Politics series is edited by Emilie van Haute,
Professor of Political Science, Universite libre de Bruxelles;
Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of
Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, Chair of the
Department of Political Science, University of Houston.
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