Marina Costa Lobo is a Political Science Researcher at the Social Sciences Institute of the University of Lisbon. Her research has focused on electoral behaviour and political institutions. She is co-director of the Portuguese Election Study since 2001. Recent publications include Portugal at the Polls (with A. Freire and P. Magalhães) and academic articles in Political Research Quarterly, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies and Party Politics . John Curtice is a Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He was co-director of the British Election Study from 1983 to 1997, is a former member of the steering committee of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Project, and has been a co-editor of the British Social Attitudes series since 1994. Recent publications include The Rise of New Labour (with A. Heath and R. Jowell) and Has Devolution Delivered? (ed. With C. Bromley, D. McCrone and A. Park).
* Introduction
* Political or Not? Where do leader evaluations come from?
* 1: Amanda Bittner: Leader Evaluations and Partisan Stereotypes, A
Comparative Analysis
* 2: Sascha Huber: What comes first, Character Traits or Political
Assessments? An Experimental Study
* Systematic or Not? When do leader evaluations matter?
* 3: John Curtice and Marco Lisi: The impact of Leaders in Presidential
and Parliamentary Regimes
* 4: Solidea Formichelli: Personality Politics in Single party and
Coalition Governments
* 5: Romain Lachat: Leader Effects and Party Polarization
* Sophisticates or Fools? Who takes leader evaluations into account?
* 7: Guillem Rico: Political Sophistication and Media Consumption as
Factors of Personalization
* 7: Marina Costa Lobo: Party Dealignment and Leader Effects
* Competence or Character? What about leaders matters?
* 8: Michael Lewis-Beck and Richard Nadeau: Between Leadership and
Charisma, the importance of Leader
* 9: Andrei Gheorghita: Determining the components of Leader Effects in
a Post-Communist Context
* 10: Tatjana Rudi: Emotions towards Leaders and Voting Behaviour
* Conclusion
