The leadership dilemma : examining the impact of strong leaders on parties
Alexiadou, Despina and O'Malley, Eoin (2021) The leadership dilemma : examining the impact of strong leaders on parties. European Journal of Political Research. ISSN 0304-4130 (https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12492)
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Abstract
Party leaders are often regarded as crucial to a party's success. Successful leaders tend to be big personalities who dominate their party's organisation, policy development, and electoral campaigns. But does that control come with a price? We test to see if such leaders damage their parties in the medium term. This happens because strong leaders might be ceded too much control of the party organisation, policy and electoral strategy. We specifically hypothesise that political parties will go through a period of leadership instability and electoral decline after strong leaders step down. Using a dataset with elections under party leaders in nine countries over a 25-year period, and a qualitative case study, we find some evidence for the theory, which should prompt further research of the question.
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Alexiadou, Despina
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Item type: Article ID code: 76611 Dates: DateEvent22 October 2021Published22 October 2021Published Online25 May 2021Accepted2020SubmittedKeywords: leadership, dilemma, strong leaders, political parties, Political Science, Political Science and International Relations Subjects: Political Science Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Government and Public Policy > Politics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 28 May 2021 11:15 Last modified: 08 Jan 2022 08:07 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/76611