Party Types in the Age of Personalized Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6324192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gideon Rahat (0000-0001-9131-4248, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 213-228 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592722000366 |
| OpenAlex | W4220697421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 64 |
Democracies in general and political parties in particular have undergone political personalization in recent decades. The power balance between politicians (one or many) and the team (the party as a collegial entity) has changed, and existing party typologies are no longer suited to the analysis of today’s democratic politics. Although some new personalized party types have been added, what is missing is a systematic attempt to contrast them with the collegial option. This article proposes a new classification of political parties to fill the lacuna. It includes five ideal types of parties: two personalized-decentralized types, referring to collections of separated autonomous activists or to separated autonomous individual politicians (plural); a collegial type, which is about the centrality of the team and is based mainly on collective authorities and collective decision making; and two personalized-centralized types, referring to the centrality of an individual politician in her capacity as the party leader or that of a specific individual who “owns” the party
Balance (ability · Business · Centrality · Democracy · Diversity (politics · Ideal (ethics · Personalization · Plural · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Marketing
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The many political legacies of Silvio Berlusconi
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From cartel to crusade
Politics remains a team sport
The power of the leader
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Movement parties in Europe
From ‘Anomaly’ to ‘Laboratory’? Fratelli d’Italia , Illiberalism and the Study of Right-Wing Parties in Western Europe
The Rise of New Personal Parties in Latin America
Party takeovers as alternative routes into politics
Personalist Leadership and Corruption
Introduction to the Special Issue
The organization of Brothers of Italy
Paraguay 2022
The Israeli parties' positions in comparative perspective
Micro and mass personalism
How institutions do (not) contain personalized politics
Parties and party systems
Faces on the Ballot
Democracy within Parties
New Parties in Old Party Systems
Party Members and Activists
The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies
From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?
The Politics of Party Leadership
Why Parties?
Party Transformations in European Democracies
Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers
Democracy and the Cartelization of Political Parties
Movement Parties
The Logics of Party Formation
Political parties and political development
Political Parties
Handbook of Party Politics
Road to Power, The
Which organization for which party? An organizational analysis of the Five-star Movement
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I taly
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Inside the personal party
Removing the intermediaries? Patterns of intra-party organizational change in Europe (1970–2010)
Partisan dealignment and the personalisation of politics in West European parliamentary democracies, 1961–2018
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Two types of presidentialization in the party politics of Central Eastern Europe
Do we need warm leaders? Exploratory study of the role of voter evaluations of leaders’ traits on turnout in seven European countries
Party leadership and party institutionalisation
Why Do Parties Change Position? Party Organization and Environmental Incentives
Party Primaries
Who Leads the Party? On Membership Size, Selectorates and Party Oligarchy
Putting Typologies to Work
A Theory of Political Parties
Memberless parties
From party to leader mobilization? The personalization of voter turnout
Species of Political Parties
Political personalization and personalized politics within and beyond the behavioural arena
The Institutionalization of Extreme Right-wing Charismatic Parties
Parties as Franchise Systems
Political Sequences and the Stabilization of Interparty Competition
Political parties, diminished subtypes, and democracy
Personal leaders and party change
The personal party
The value of political parties to representative democracy
The organization of a participatory party – the German Greens
The business firm model of party organisation
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Presidentialized Parties
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| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |