Changes in electoral markets in the late 20th century have forced political parties to adapt.
Having lost much support and facing growing disaffection, parties often resorted to …

Silvio Berlusconi's enduring influence on Italian politics is profound, marking a
transformative era that reshaped the nation's political, institutional, and communicative …

Scholars have examined how political parties cope with web-based technologies for about
20 years. This body of literature on party digitalisation covers many different aspects of …

Procedures of party leadership selection have attracted considerable scholarly attention in
recent years, but voting motives of party members in leadership elections have not been fully …

Research shows that legislators who dissent from the political line of their party are
rewarded among constituents. This raises concerns about future party cohesiveness and, in …

The core feature of a parliamentary system is not that governments tend to emerge from the
legislatures in some way or another but their political responsibility to this body. While in …

Personalisation of politics entails that political individuals become more important at the
expense of political groups. This development is perceived as one of the most important …

This article examines factors that influence voters' knowledge of their representatives, a key
element in securing the responsiveness and accountability of parliamentarians. We argue …

In this article, we propose an individual-level explanation for variation in personalized
representation, and ask which personality fits personalized representation. Building on …

Populist parties are often described as highly centralised and personalistic, with low levels
of party institutionalisation. However, there have been few empirical studies to assess the …