[27 Oct 2005] 7,193 words The Personalization of Politics Ian McAllister Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Tel: +61 (0)2 6125 5553 Fax: +61 (0)2 6125 3051 E-mail: ian.mcallister@anu.edu.au A chapter prepared for Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, editors, Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior.