Research indicates that affective polarization pervades contemporary democracies
worldwide. Although some studies identify party leaders as polarizing agents, affective …

Long gone are the times when class-based political parties with extensive membership
dominated politics. Instead, party politics has become issue-based. Surprisingly few studies …

In 2014, the EU introduced the lead candidate procedure to raise citizens' awareness and
interest in the European Parliament (EP) elections and, thereby, voter turnout. We study the …

This accessible, rigorously researched and highly revealing book lifts the lid on political
party membership. It represents the first in-depth study of six of the UK's biggest parties …

Our aim is to propose guidelines for the analysis of political personalization and
personalized politics in general and for behavioural personalization in particular. The first …

Why do some parties live fast and die young, but other endure? And why are some party
systems more stable than others? Based on a blend of data derived from both qualitative …

Political parties have been studied as organizations for more than a century. Over time the
focus of party research has shifted, from normative concerns with organizational democracy …

Agustín, 2018 Agustín, ÓG (2018). We the people or we the republic? The need for
republican populism. In OG Agustín & M. Briziarelli (Eds.), Podemos and the new political …

Democracies in general and political parties in particular have undergone political
personalization in recent decades. The power balance between politicians (one or many) …

Existing research has begun to tackle the electoral consequences of affective polarization
through the lens of negative partisanship. However, not equal attention has been paid to …