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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Discovering Your Communication Home -- Chapter Two: New School Technology (Life as We Know It) -- Chapter Three: Relationships -- Chapter Four: Ol' School Simplicity (Pre-Digital Technology) -- Chapter Five: Balancing Act -- Chapter Six: Rollin' with the Times -- Chapter Seven: Disconnecting to Reconnect (Practices Part 1) -- Chapter Eight: Stepping into Your Power (Practices Part 2) -- Chapter Nine: Seizing an Opportunity -- Chapter Ten: Claiming Who You Want to Be -- Answering the Final Question -- References -- About the Author -- Continue the Journey with Renée.

List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: two takes, two stories -- Chapter 1 -- leaders and parties in Western Europe -- Party decline and the rise of party leaders -- The focus on party leader selection rules -- Limits and insights of existing studies -- Party change, the personalisation of politics, and openings in party leader selection rules -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2 -- setting the ground: the opening of party leader selection rules -- The dependent variable: party leader selectorate -- Time and space: the case selection and the features of the party leader selectorates -- The research question and the general framework of analysis -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 -- the internal and external factors -- The leadership change -- The membership decline -- The personalisation of politics (1): leaders' control of party organisations -- Party family -- The electoral setback -- The opposition status -- The contagion effect -- The personalisation of politics (2): a general effect -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 -- explaining openings in party leader selection rules -- The empirical analysis -- A first discussion of the insights from the analysis -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5 -- the PCI-PDS: the strength of ideology -- Communist ideology and practices in the PCI -- Leader selection in the PCI (and the early PDS): from Natta to Occhetto -- The connection between the PCI and the PDS -- The missed opening of the leader selectorate in the PDS in 1994 -- Ideology strikes back: the victory of D'Alema against Veltroni in 1994 -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6 -- the Northern League: the consequences of intra-party divisions -- The Northern League under Umberto Bossi -- The 2012 events: the old guard passes the baton, or does not? -- A divided party, a weaker leadership: the Northern League in 2013 -- The opening of the selectorate in the Northern League in 2013 -- The historical party leader and the rising star: Bossi vs Salvini in 2013 -- Conclusions -- Conclusions: new opportunities for leaders and parties? -- Appendix A -- list of countries and parties -- Appendix B -- specifications on variables' operationalization.

"This book analyses the determinants behind the openings in party leader selection rules (leaders' selectorate) in 10 Western European countries and more than 55 parties between the mid-1980s and the mid-2010s. Presenting a novel and revealing theoretical and empirical framework, it tackles the impact of party change and the personalisation of politics, specifically using data coming from the first expert survey on the personalisation of politics in Western Europe; the PoPES. A quantitative analysis is paired with more in-depth explorations of two Italian parties (the Italian Communist Party - Democratic Party of the Left; the Northern League) and the (missed) opening of their leader selectorate. This book highlights the critical importance of studying party leader selection rules against the backdrop of allegedly declining parties and rising party leaders and concludes by placing its findings in a broader discussion about the future of Western European party leaders. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party systems, leadership, political elites, elections, democracy, and more widely of Western European politics and comparative politics"--

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