Abstract
The concluding chapter summarizes our main findings. We discuss the usefulness and explicatory potential of our theoretical framework of collective leadership and illustrate what we have learned from its application to our three cases (Alliance 90/The Greens, Alternative for Germany, Five Star Movement). Despite their individual trajectories and different ideological platforms, the parties exhibit several similarities in their handling of collective leadership (e.g., movement parties, pressure on party organization after securing parliamentary representation, individual characteristics of leaders). We distinguish country-specific elements from more general patterns and develop several heuristic hypotheses on the basis of our empirical analyses. We end by sketching further directions of research on this topic and discussing conditions of a broader comparative analysis.
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In Italy, it is quite common, even if not mandatory, that the party or the coalition symbol contains the name of the leader.
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Campus, D., Switek, N., Valbruzzi, M. (2021). Conclusion. In: Collective Leadership and Divided Power in West European Parties. Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75255-2_7
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