Parties and Personalities: The Case of Antonio Bassolino, Former Mayor of Naples

Allum, Felia; Cilento, Marco

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“…A growing number of studies examining strategic self-presentation by politicians, in various democracies, reveal the growing emphasis placed on projecting the right image in the media (Allum and Cilento 2001;Corner 2000;Pels 2003;Gulati 2004;Schutz 1995). Research has shown that US presidential candidates increasingly use certain media channels to emphasize personal qualities when campaigning (Hellweg 1995;Davies 1999).…”

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“…By the 1992 US presidential campaign, the television chat show had become a routine campaign stop. Recent research in Europe shows that party leaders increasingly use various media outlets to emphasize the qualities that they believe their constituents see as positive (Allum and Cilento 2001;Campus 2002;Cockerell 1989;Mughan 2000;Pels 2003). For example, research conducted on politicians on television talk-shows found that their self-presentation 'consisted of pointing out their belief in moral values as well as their worthiness, which was paired with selfdisclosure [...].…”

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ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES, ONLINE SELF-PRESENTATION AND THE PERSONAL VOTE:Party, personality and webstyles in the United States and United Kingdom

Stanyer¹

2008

Information, Communication & Society

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This article examines the way politicians package themselves to their constituents via the Web. It looks at various aspects of online self-promotion by incumbent representatives in two advanced industrial democracies -the US and the UK. It seeks to ascertain the extent to which personal qualities are a key aspect of an elected representative's online persona, and any differences that exist between these democracies with different electoral cultures. It concludes by considering the findings of empirical research and what it reveals about the relationship between national electoral cultures and the politician's persona.

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2008

Information, Communication & Society

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“…The loyalist character of some might have made them reluctant to rock the boat but no association we interviewed felt they had a compelling reason to intervene or participate. Bassolino's electoral strategies also garnered civil society support by appointing civil society 'experts' rather than party representatives to his executive in his first administration and by setting up a non-party electoral list composed of civil society notables for the 1997 mayoral elections (Allum & Cilento, 2001). By such strategies the Bassolino administration distanced itself from traditional, and partly discredited, party allegiances and established at least a measure of political rapport with parts of civil society.…”

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Governance through civil society? An Anglo-Italian comparison of democratic renewal and local regeneration

Jones

Bull

2006

Journal of Civil Society

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The UK has become a prime case for the implementation of the 'new governance' of partnership between central government and civil society. This perspective has become central to New Labour policies for both local socio-economic regeneration and democratic renewal in the United Kingdom. However, limitations in its redistribution of power, its transparency in the policy-making process, including the representativeness of civil society participants, and, in the effectiveness of its outcomes have all been alleged by academic critics. These issues are explored by contrasting a robust, British case of local, participatory governance in Bristol with a quite different, and more conventional approach to democratic renewal in the Italian city of Naples. Despite similar problems of socio-economic dereliction and similar schemes of regeneration in the two cases, the Italian approach emphasized the exclusive role of a renewed constitutional democracy, while in Bristol central government agencies promoted an accentuation of local trends to participation by local civil society organizations. Applying an analytical framework composed of national policies and regulations, institutional rules and norms, and the collective 'identity' factors identified by social capital theory, governance changes are here treated as 'exogenous shocks' and/or as opportunities for choice. However, over and above differences in these institutional frameworks the key factors are shown to be the longer-standing political cultures influencing local actors and their own repertoires of action; with repertoires influenced by objective validations of previous policy choices, or economic or electoral successes. The study finds that the achievements of the 'inclusive', participative governance approach do not significantly exceed those of an exclusivist, 'neo-constitutionalism', as practised by a more autonomous local government in Naples. Thus, on this evidence, enhanced civil society engagement still requires greater freedom from central government direction.

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Towards Glocal Leadership: Taking up the Challenge of New Local Governance in Europe?

Martins

Álvarez

2007

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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In recent years local leaders have become simultaneously intensely local, in fostering partnerships with local players, and intensely global, in going abroad to get resources, be they political, cognitive, or financial, to implement large urban projects; they have become ‘glocal’ leaders. At the same time, local stakeholders such as metropolitan or regional authorities, chambers of commerce, firms, or civil society organizations have pursued their own international objectives independently. Not all cities have therefore developed such a thing as a strategy. Nor have they all played the same hand in the international game. From this, two questions immediately arise: (i) why have some cities succeeded in carrying out an international strategy and others not? (ii) why have the successful ones chosen different paths? By focusing on local political leadership patterns in three European case studies, we argue that along with their institutional strengths the personal traits of the mayors are more than crucial to understanding why some cities have strategically played the international game and how they have played it. But this does not tell the whole story. One needs to make a detour via place-specific governance patterns, and more precisely the key local stakeholders to be convinced, persuaded, or cajoled, to properly assess the urban international strategies. With these major findings, we conclude that the ‘new international city era’ phenomenon tends to personalize local power.

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Parties and Personalities: The Case of Antonio Bassolino, Former Mayor of Naples

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ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES, ONLINE SELF-PRESENTATION AND THE PERSONAL VOTE:Party, personality and webstyles in the United States and United Kingdom

ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES, ONLINE SELF-PRESENTATION AND THE PERSONAL VOTE:Party, personality and webstyles in the United States and United Kingdom

Governance through civil society? An Anglo-Italian comparison of democratic renewal and local regeneration

Towards Glocal Leadership: Taking up the Challenge of New Local Governance in Europe?

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