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100			_aMilazzo, Calitlin and Townsley, Joshua _926353
245			_aConceived in Harlesden: Candidate- centred campaigning in British general elections
260			_aParliamentary Affairs: A Journal of Representative Politics
300			_a73(1), Jan, 2020: p.127- 146
520			_aRecent decades have seen an increasing trend towards the personalisation of election campaigns, even in systems where candidates have few structural incentives to emphasise their personal appeal. In this article, we build on a growing literature that points to the importance of candidate characteristics in determining electoral success. Using a dataset composed of more than 3700 leaflets distributed during the 2015 and 2017 general elections, we explore the conditions under which messages emphasising the personal characteristics of prospective parliamentary candidates appear in British general election campaign materials. Even when we account for party affiliation, we find that there are important contextual and individual-level factors that predict the use of candidate-centred messaging. – Reproduced
773			_aParliamentary Affairs: A Journal of Representative Politics
906			_aELECTION - UNITED KINGDOM
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