TY - BOOK ED - Friedberg, Chen ED - Rahaṭ, Gidʻon PY - 2024 DA - 2024// TI - Collegial democracy versus personal democracy: 'we' the people or 'I' the people? T3 - Routledge research in comparative politics PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon, Oxon KW - Democracy KW - Social aspects KW - Individualism KW - Political aspects KW - Democratization KW - Démocratisation KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy AB - "This book examines two patterns of democracy - collegial and personal - through a comprehensive comparison of political institutions. It develops a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological basis for differentiating collegial and personal democracy. Central institutions in democracy are classified according to their levels of personalism and collegialism, including political parties, candidate selection methods and electoral systems, legislature, and cabinets and governments. The book presents preliminary findings concerning the causes for this variance between the two democratic regime types. The book will be of key interest to students and scholars of political parties, democratic institutions, personalism and personalization, and, more broadly, democracy"-- SN - 9781040003114 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3796628 LA - English N1 - edited by Chen Friedberg and Gideon Rahat ID - 1884454844 ER -