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%T Leader Change, Time in Office and the Determinants of Voter Perceptions %A Bridgewater, Jack %J Parliamentary Affairs %N 1 %P 146-161 %V 76 %D 2023 %K Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES); leader evaluations; party organisation; political parties; presidentialisation; voter perceptions %@ 1460-2482 %~ FDB %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-93908-5 %X There is a significant literature on the role of both parties and leaders in electoral politics and a broad understanding of the strength of the relationship between the two in voters' minds. However, less has been done to determine if there is systematic variation in whether voters see a party and its leader as one and the same. I address this question by using the Comparative Study of Electoral System to measure the impact of leader changes on voter perceptions. I find that new leaders are less likely to be evaluated according to the party they represent, with some evidence that maintaining the same leader over a long period of time increases the association between leader and party. %C GBR %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info