Changing Parties, Changing Partisans: The Personalization of Partisan Attachments in Western Europe

This article investigates the effects of the deep transformations in the relationship between West European class-mass parties and their electorates. Particular attention is paid to the changing nature of individuals' partisan attachments, which are hypothesized to be less rooted in social and...

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Constituents
Democracy
Elections
Electorate
Federal Republic of Germany
Germany
Government
Great Britain
Partisanship
Party identification
Party leadership
party transformation
personalization of politics
Political attitudes
Political candidates
Political elections
political leadership
Political Parties
Political partisanship
Political psychology
Social Class
Social Identity
Social psychology
United Kingdom
Voter attitudes
Voters
Voting
Western Europe
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