Collegial democracy versus personal democracy: 'we' the people or 'I' the people?

"This book examines two patterns of democracy - collegial and personal - through a comprehensive comparison of political institutions. It develops a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological basis for differentiating collegial and personal democracy. Central institutions in democracy are classified according to their levels of personalism and collegialism, including political parties, candidate selection methods and electoral systems, legislature, and cabinets and governments. The book presents preliminary findings concerning the causes for this variance between the two democratic regime types. The book will be of key interest to students and scholars of political parties, democratic institutions, personalism and personalization, and, more broadly, democracy"--

Introduction: Collegial versus personal democratic institutional orders / Chen Friedberg and Gideon Rahat -- Collegial versus personal political parties / Gideon Rahat -- Candidate selection methods and electoral systems : between collegialism and personalism / Or Tuttnauer -- Collegial versus personal parliaments / Avital Friedman and Shahaf Zamir -- Collegial versus personal cabinets and governments / Eyal Ben Shimol, Gideon Rahat and Reuvan Y. Hazan -- Collegial democracy versus personal democracy / Chen Friedberg and Gideon Rahat.