caa a22 4500 386339988 CHVBK 20180307111746.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1961663 doi S0003055400088092 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1961663 Leadership Effects in Parliamentary Elections in Australia and Britain [Elektronische Daten] Political party leaders are an increasingly influential electoral force in contemporary liberal democracies. We test the hypothesis that their appeal is idiosyncratic, that is, that their electoral effect is a function of the leadership qualities voters perceive individual candidates as possessing. Thus, the less similar their personality profiles, the more the characteristics influencing the vote should differ from one leader to another. A comparison of Australia and Britain finds the opposite to be the case. Despite the divergent profiles of party leaders, the precise characteristics influencing the vote are remarkably similar in the two countries. This does not mean, however, that variation in the distribution of these characteristics is unimportant. It can affect the balance of the party vote and may even have been the difference between victory and defeat for the Australian Labor party in the closely fought 1987 election. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989 Bean Clive Australian National University Mughan Anthony Ohio State University American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/4(1989-12), 1165-1179 0003-0554 83:4<1165 1989 83 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/1961663 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1961663 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bean Clive Australian National University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mughan Anthony Ohio State University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/4(1989-12), 1165-1179 0003-0554 83:4<1165 1989 83 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge