Towards a chequebook democracy? Business, parties and the funding of politics in Italy and the United States

Hopkin, Jonathan

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“…Politics have become more personalized in the democracies of the Western World in recent decades, according to many (e.g., Caprara & Zimbardo, 2004;Hopkin, 2005;Jones & Hudson, 1996;Sullivan, Aldrich, Borgida, & Rahn, 1990;Wattenberg, 1995). Political scientists identify several factors as conducive to the growing personalization of politics.…”

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The Personalization of Politics

Caprara

Schwartz

Vecchione

et al. 2008

European Psychologist

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We examine how the traits and values of both candidates and voters contribute to political choice, using the five-factor model of traits and the Schwartz (1992 ) theory of basic personal values. 1,164 subjects reported their voting intention, their own traits and values, and those they perceived in the leader of one Italian political coalition (center-right or center-left). As hypothesized, voters simplified their personality judgments of politicians. Instead of the 5 trait factors and 10 basic values they employed in self-descriptions, they described the politicians using 2 trait factors (integrity and leadership) and 2 value dimensions (concern for others vs. self and excitement vs. caution). Logistic regressions revealed that voters own values predicted voting intention as hypothesized based on the policies advocated by the coalitions. Values trumped both own traits and demographic characteristics. The perceived traits and values of candidates accounted for additional variance in voting intention. The traits on which voters perceived a politician as weaker (Prodis leadership and Berlusconis integrity) were more decisive in orienting political preferences. We discuss explanations and implications of these findings.

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The Personalization of Politics

Caprara

Schwartz

Vecchione

et al. 2008

European Psychologist

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“…Even if Mr. Berlusconi can’t be considered representative of the typical Italian leadership styles, undoubtedly he keeps being elected to office by a large segment of the Italian population despite his sometimes questionable behaviour – for example, since 1994 he has been tried repeatedly in Italian courts or involved in many scandals – and, most importantly, despite several concerns regarding his idea and exercise of political leadership and power. These concerns are related to the control he is able to exert over the media, his numerous conflicts of interest, the extensive use made by the Berlusconi Government of the so-called ‘decree laws’, which do not require the prior authorization of Parliament, and vote of confidence, which puts the government’s future survival on the line and discourages dissenting groups within the majority to vote against the government (Hibberd, 2007; Hopkin, 2005; Sartori, 2009; Vassallo, 2007).…”

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Servant leadership in Italy and its relation to organizational variables

2012

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This paper aimed to investigate three issues. First, the validation of the multi-dimensional Servant Leadership Survey (SLS) within the Italian context. Second, to enhance insight into the degree of servant leadership behaviour displayed by Italian leaders in organizational settings. Third, to support the fact that in Italy, too, servant leadership is positively correlated to leadership integrity, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviour while it is negatively correlated to cynicism towards one’s own work. A sample of about 800 adults, males and females, currently employed in profit and non-profit organizations, took part in the study. The factorial structure of SLS found support, and the survey showed satisfactory psychometric properties and reliability. Servant leadership expressed by Italian leaders turned out to be lower than in The Netherlands and in the UK. SLS scores were positively associated with leadership integrity, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviour, and negatively associated for cynicism

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“…Various pragmatic reasons for political parties in candidate selection have been internalized in party institutions. In electoral politics in Indonesia, institutional factors such as centralization, oligarchy, corporatization, and personalization in political parties have made political practices further away from democratic procedures (Budi, 2020;Crouch, 2004;Hadiz & Robison, 2013;Hopkin, 2005;Musella, 2015;Reuter, 2015;Winters, 2014). Political parties are previously initiated, formed, and developed by certain figures and groups, so that they will play a central role as party leaders.…”

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How Local Democratic Backsliding? Single Candidate, Pragmatism and Uncompetitive Local Head Election in Indonesia

Prianto,

Yuslaini

2024

JWP

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This paper will examine how pragmatism has created rational choice behavior in candidate selection. Pragmatism has resulted in single candidates for local heads, which makes local democracy uncompetitive. The research method used is an explanatory approach that aims to explain how pragmatism as a rational choice behavior in the local government head election. Data were collected, compiled and analyzed using Nvivo 12 Plus software. The results showed that political parties as political institutions are very pragmatic in the selection of candidates for local heads. The incumbents utilized the support of almost all political parties based on clientelistic and programmatic relations. This has led the candidate selection process to prioritize pragmatic aspects, especially financial support, acceptability, and electability of candidates. The candidate selection process no longer determines ideological values at the official candidate selection process. Financial support for candidates has the highest priority for political parties in determining their endorsements in regional head elections. Meanwhile, the acceptability aspect refers to the dominant acceptance of all elites, cadres, and the mass base of supporters of the selected candidate. Electability is also a priority, although it is considered that electability trends are dynamic and able to change based on the level of competition. The behavior of political party elite actors and local head candidates eventually forms a rational choice pattern that makes local democracy backsliding.

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Towards a chequebook democracy? Business, parties and the funding of politics in Italy and the United States

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

The Personalization of Politics

The Personalization of Politics

Servant leadership in Italy and its relation to organizational variables

How Local Democratic Backsliding? Single Candidate, Pragmatism and Uncompetitive Local Head Election in Indonesia

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