Cleavages have been central in understanding the relationship between political parties
and voters but the credibility of cleavage approach has been increasingly debated. This is …

This book examines whether parties' ability to channel voter interests into political
institutions has in fact declined in the wake of decline of party membership figures and the …

This article examines why people vote for the same party, switch parties or move from voting
to non‐voting at consecutive elections. By using post‐election survey data from Iceland …

Over the past half century, the behavior of German voters has changed profoundly. After a
long period of stability, elections have dramatically altered their character—at first rather …

Conventional wisdom on party systems in advanced industrial democracies holds that
modern electorates are dealigned and that social cleavages no longer structure party …

In zahlreichen westlichen Demokratien erodieren langfristige Parteibindungen. Diesem
Prozess werden gravierende Folgen für das politische Geschehen zugeschrieben. Der …

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This book examines changes in voters' electoral choices over time and investigates how
these changes are linked to a growth in electoral volatility. Ruth Dassonneville's core …

Representative democracy presents politicians with an information problem: How to find out
what voters want? While party elites used to rely on their membership or mass surveys …

Television is customarily put forward as a driver of the “personalization of politics.” The
characteristics of this visual medium arguably accentuate personality at the expense of …