Constituency candidates in comparative perspective – How personalized are constituency campaigns, why, and does it matter?

Zittel, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2014.04.005

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“…In weaker regions, the local media might be geared towards also reporting regional issues, thus providing the candidates access (Driessens et al, 2010;Cross and Young, 2015). In stronger regions, the local media might be geared towards reporting strictly national and local issues so regional issues or elections might be left out (Zittel, 2015). That level of coverage might be found in a higher-level regional media.…”

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“…Thus in this way, the candidate may find more incentives to run on a personalized campaign for financial reasons in larger territories. So far there has been some work on the relationship between campaign fundraising and the intention to cultivate a personal vote (Samuels, 2002;Zittel, 2015), but again, most of these literature focus on national legislative elections. Therefore, future research should test this relationship if it would manifest at various strengths as a function of regional authority.…”

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“…Because of the low-salience environment, every extra mile canvassed in such a personalized campaign could have a significant marginal impact on the candidate's electoral prospect, thus the previous calculus of campaign costs may not apply to this level of elections. There has been some discussion on the effect salience of local issues have in personalized campaigns, but they have been mostly focused on national-level campaigns (Cross and Young, 2015;Zittel, 2015). Therefore, future research should also look into the salience of these issues in regional campaigns.…”

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The territoriality of personalization: New avenues for decentralized personalization in multi-level Western Europe

Chan

2017

Regional & Federal Studies

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In light of the increasing scholarly attention to the concept of decentralized personalization, this paper argues that the territoriality (the level of government to which an MP belongs) of an MP would also lead to variations in that MP's incentive to personalize their campaigns. Using data from the PARTIREP Comparative MP survey, this paper tests the role of the territoriality of an MP in their incentive to personalize their campaigns across nine multilevel countries in Western Europe. Although the level of personalization of campaigns does differ according to territoriality, the underlying explanatory variables do not behave uniformly across territoriality. This paper thus draws attention to the rarely explored role of territory, and the complications it may bring to the explanation of the personalization of politics.

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The territoriality of personalization: New avenues for decentralized personalization in multi-level Western Europe

Chan

2017

Regional & Federal Studies

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“…Previous research has shown that MPs may have strong incentives to deviate from the party line in an effort to create a personal platform (see Baumann, Debus, & Müller, 2015;Gschwend & Zittel, 2015;Zittel & Gschwend, 2008; for a recent overview, see Zittel, 2015). This strand of literature has also suggested that MPs who are closely connected to their 'home' regions have stronger incentives to create a personal platform (e.g., Baumann, 2016).…”

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Coordination of legislative speech in times of crisis: Youth unemployment and debates on redistributive policies in the Swedish Riksdag, 1994–2014

2019

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Parliamentary debates and the discussion on different law proposals are a key part of the process of policy making. We argue in this article that a high economic problem pressure in the region an MP represents will affect the MP’s legislative speechmaking. We also hypothesise that parties tend to coordinate their speakers in parliament to display a cohesive profile in the domain of labour, employment and immigration issues, i.e., in issue areas which reflect redistributive policies that are highly salient for almost all parties. We evaluate our expectations based on an analysis of Swedish parliamentary debates on labour, employment and immigration policy during the period between 1994 and 2014. The findings show that parliamentary parties coordinate speechmaking: Those MPs who represent economically troubled districts are less likely to appear in plenary debates, as well as MPs who deviate programmatically from the party line.

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“…There has been a growing attention on candidate personalization, which examines the constituency level of electoral politics and the behavior of candidates during the campaign (McAllister, 2007;De Winter and Baudewyns, 2015;Eder et al, 2015;Gschwend and Zittel, 2015;Zittel, 2015). The concept of 'individualized campaigning'which is used in this paper as a synonymous of 'candidate personalization'refers to a situation where candidates campaign independently of the party (see Zittel and Gschwend, 2008: 980).…”

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Campaign individualization in a comparative perspective: does the context matter?

Lisi¹,

Pereira²

2019

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Despite a great flourishing of studies on election campaigns, the issue of individualized campaigns has been widely neglected, especially from a comparative perspective. Yet, campaigns differ not only in terms of strategy or style, but also with regard to the role played by individual candidates. This article examines the variation of both the communicative focus and the resources used by candidates across different Western democracies. Using data from the Comparative Candidate Surveys (CCS), it tests the impact of several institutional and political features on campaign individualization. Our results show that both electoral systems and the legal framework regulating electoral contests display a significant impact on campaign individualization.

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Constituency candidates in comparative perspective – How personalized are constituency campaigns, why, and does it matter?

Cited by 43 publications

References 11 publications

The territoriality of personalization: New avenues for decentralized personalization in multi-level Western Europe

The territoriality of personalization: New avenues for decentralized personalization in multi-level Western Europe

Coordination of legislative speech in times of crisis: Youth unemployment and debates on redistributive policies in the Swedish Riksdag, 1994–2014

Campaign individualization in a comparative perspective: does the context matter?

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