Tag: Personalisation of Politics
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Short explainer – What is the personalization of politics? What are the negatives and positives?

Politics increasingly centres on personalities, not policy. The upsides and downsides of personalised politics.
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Personality Crisis? Did the “personalisation of politics” lead to UKIP’s rise?

In the May 2014 European elections, Nigel Farage and the UK Independence Party (UKIP from hereon) polled in first place, with 26.6 per cent of the national vote. Despite UKIP’s now ostensible popularity, they are academically under analysed as a political movement. This literature review will examine where I believe there is a major gap…
