Current Research

Individualism and Political Personalism: A Nuanced Approach

 

Individualization and political personalization reflect shifts in contemporary societies toward a

greater emphasis on individual actors and their roles and a lesser one on collectives and groupings.

 

Yet, the relationship between these two central social and political phenomena poses a conundrum:

Does individualization breed personalization? Or, more specifically, what type of individualization breeds what type of personalization?

And is there a particular type of individualization that can produce collegialism?