Political Leadership, Parties and Citizens : The personalisation of leadership (Hardcover)

Part 1: Personalisation of Leaders and Citizens-Party Relationships  2. The Problems Posed by the ‘Social Cleavages’ Analysis of  Parties  3. Types of Personal Relationships among Leaders, their Parties and the Citizens of these Parties  4. The Psychological Bases of the Relationship between Citizens and Parties and the Role of Leaders  5. Parties and Personalised Leaders: Pre-Existing Parties and New Parties. A Preliminary General Survey  6. A Prospective Methodology for the Analysis of the Links between Leaders, Parties and Citizens  Part 2: Case Studies of Party Personalisation of Leadership  7. Introduction: The Need to Examine Specific Aspects of the Impact of Party Personalisation by Means of Case-Studies  8. Great Britain - Did Party Personalisation of Leadership Save the British Two-Party System?  9. France - The Personalisation of Leadership and French Political Parties  10. Italy  11. Poland  12. Japan - The Personalisation of Politics: Koizumi and Japanese Politics  13. Thailand - The Personalisation of the Party Leader: Thaksin, Parties and Thailand