▪ Abstract Why is turnout higher in some countries and/or in some elections than in others?
Why does it increase or decrease over time? To address these questions, I start with the …

For more than 40 years, studies trying to explain macro-level electoral turnout have been
one of the pillars of political behavioural research. From January 2004 to December 2013 …

Rising support for populist parties has disrupted the politics of many Western societies. What
explains this phenomenon? Two theories are examined here. Perhaps the most widely-held …

As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption
and racial tension, it seems as though they might be'evolving'into the kind of societies …

We develop a model where party leaders choose the competence of politicians on the ballot
to trade off electoral success against their own survival. The predicted correlation between …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

Table of Contents Preface 1 Introduction 1 2 The Westminster Model of Democracy 9 3 The
Consensus Model of Democracy 31 4 Thirty-Six Democracies 48 5 Party Systems: Two …

How can scholars select cases from a large universe for in-depth case study analysis?
Random sampling is not typically a viable approach when the total number of cases to be …

In recent years, political parties and national legislatures in more than one hundred
countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to political office …

In democracies, power is obtained via competition. Yet, as women gain access to
parliaments in record numbers, worldwide collaboration appears to be on the rise. This is …