Media and the presidentialization of parliamentary elections /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Anthony Mughan.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2000.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiv, 179 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Media and the presidentialization of parliamentary elections / Anthony Mughan. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- The Presidentialization Debate -- Presidentialization of Presentation and Impact -- Explaining Leader Effects -- Media and Leader Effects -- Scale and Durability of Leader Effects -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Elections Great Britain, Political parties Great Britain, Political leadership Great Britain, Great Britain Politics and government 1945-Mass media Political aspects Great Britain.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"In theory, parliamentary elections are contests between political parties whose leaders do not have a separate identity from their party in the public eye. Drawing on content analysis of newspaper editorials and television broadcasts as well as on copious survey evidence, Anthony Mughan shows that in the case of Britain this theory no longer holds. The dynamics of parliamentary elections have become more 'presidential' in the sense that the leaders of the major parties now figure more prominently in both media coverage of the campaign and in determining the party that voters choose at the polls."
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"The presidentialization trajectory in both media coverage and electoral impact is mapped, competing explanations of it evaluated against the available evidence, the electoral importance of the personalities of the party leaders established, the role of various media and types of political programming on television in producing leader effects explored, and the type of voter most susceptible to leader effects identified. A final chapter explores some of the implications of these findings for the practice of parliamentary government and the quality of parliamentary democracy."--Jacket.