This book examines the process of presidentialisation of political parties in the Western
Balkans. The Western Balkan countries deserve to be analysed in a comparative perspective due
to their distinctive features in terms of processes of democratization forms of government and
institutional assets the presence of social cleavages (religious linguistic ethnic) and of
course the nature of political parties which differs from other European cases especially in
terms of origins organization and structure. However Western Balkan political parties do show
certain similarities with other West European cases where power is centralised and held by the
parties' leadership. The book ultimately attempts to test whether and to what extent the
influence of institutional variables affects the level of presidentialisation of political
parties also considering the parties' organization features.
