Leaders without Partisans examines the changing impact of party
leader evaluations on voters' behavior in parliamentary elections.
The decline of traditional social cleavages, the pervasive
mediatization of the political scene, and the media's growing
tendency to portray politics in "personalistic" terms all led to
the hypothesis that leaders matter more for the way individuals
vote and, often, the way elections turn out. This study offers the
most comprehensive longitudinal assessment of this hypothesis so
far. The authors develop a composite theoretical framework - based
on currently disconnected strands of research from party, media,
and electoral studies - and test it empirically on the most
encompassing set of national election study datasets ever
assembled. The labor-intensive harmonization effort produces an
unprecedented dataset pooling information for a total of 129
parliamentary elections conducted between 1961 and 2018 in 14 West
European countries. The book provides evidence of the longitudinal
growth in leader effects on vote choice and on turnout. The process
of partisan dealignment and changes in the structure of mass
communication in Western societies are identified as the main
drivers of personalization in voting behavior.
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