... infotainment mixed system integrity leader attributes characteristics non political leader attributes Dalton R J family life Wattenberg M competence personality Kepplinger H M Reinemann C Goddard P Esaiasson P media effects political leaders personalization presidentialization media coverage...

...This chapter examines the role of political leaders in Westminster systems of government. The role of the prime minister, and more generally of party leaders, in Westminster systems has changed over the past half-century. In the immediate post-war years, the prime minister’s fate was inextricably...

... hypothesis Lau R R party bias Cost Orientation hypothesis Kernell S Klein J G economic voting Wattenberg M asymmetry hypothesis campaigning Kiewiet D R Lewis Beck M S Australian Democrats Beazley K C Howard J W negativity thesis voters voting behaviour political leaders leader evaluations...

..., trustworthiness, reliability, and empathy are closely related to the overall image of political leaders as well as to the eventual voting decision. In other words, politically relevant and performance-related leader traits are important criteria for voters’ political judgements and decisions, and this importance...

...This chapter attempts to distinguish the historical reality of postsocialist transformation and technical progress from the reflection of that reality in people's minds. It discusses the responsibility of the economic profession in educating students; political leaders as educators of their nations...

... conditions. While the process of ethnicization initially occurs on the state level in the discourse of political leaders, it may or may not lead to polarization along ethnic lines in some communities. ethnicization local level ethnicization nationalism political ethnicities “state of exception” framing...

... Józef Witaszewski General Kazimierz Cyrankiewicz Józef Kruczek Władysław Mankiewicz Czesław Morawski Jerzy Olszowski Stefan Spychalski Marian Szydlak Jan Bromberg Adam memoirs Grynberg Henryk Rokossovsky Marshal anti-Zionist campaign Poland Dariusz Stola Polish political leaders racist...

...-quality rulers; China's one (ruling) party political system is not about to collapse; the meritocratic aspect of the system is partly good; and it can be improved. The chapter then offers suggestions about which qualities matter most for political leaders in the context of large, peaceful, and modernizing...

...This chapter recounts the killing of more than three hundred civilians in the city of Amritsar, India by British soldiers, in which political leaders in London were not complicit in the massacre and so had a reduced a stake in biasing the distribution of the blame. Thus, the efforts to manage...

... predates the American century. Propaganda as a tool of foreign relations predates the United States by centuries. Political leaders have always intuited the importance of dealing with public opinion, both in terms of reacting to it and shaping it. The advent of technology, evolution in the role and scope...

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... state government for the improvement of the Tennessee Valley's infrastructure presented a formidable obstacle to economic advancement for the region's ruling and labouring classes. The chapter observes that the perceived unresponsiveness of North Carolina's eastern political leaders to the demands made...

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... protest psychological affinities Snow P G voting coteria charisma centripetal charisma Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs FPÖ Lega Nord LN charismatic leaders political leaders radical right party organization leadership right-wing politicians During recent decades there have been...

... political leaders in big and powerful countries to take actions that have no legitimacy or legal basis and are sanctioned by none other than themselves, which is anathema to the very idea of democracy. Given the long history of democracy, which goes back to Athens and its surrounding territories of sixth...

... and Scheduled Tribes SCSTs Women’s Reservation Bill WRB India Angosto Ferrández Luis Fernando Brazil potential nested candidate quotas gender quotas ethnic quotas nested quotas national legislatures political representation diversity of political leaders In 2001, the rule of the Taliban—one of the most...

... in India. In addition, the study of the social profile of political leaders also helps in analysing the shifting nature of political representation. The chapter discusses how the social and institutional complexity in India requires political leaders to mix and blend eclectically their political styles...

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... dark core narcissism psychopathy Machiavellianism dark triad big five plasticity stability comparative politics politicians political leaders expert survey democracy media media coverage Observing the turbulent and violent aftermath of the (first) Trump presidency in early 2021, Daron...