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 …

Being born in Italy (being Italian is different, and I never completely understood what it really
means) has had some influence, albeit involuntarily, on my political and cultural education …

The personalization of politics has been extensively studied from different angles and in
different national contexts. Nonetheless, an easily comparable and longitudinal study of the …

In this article, we focus on the candidate selection processes of Podemos in Spain and the
Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S–Five Star Movement) in Italy, processes which are related to intra …

This article offers a comparative analysis of electoral intra-party competition in four countries–
Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland and Luxembourg–based on an original data set of …

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 …

Preference votes constitute one of the key features of (open and flexible) PR-list electoral
systems. In this article, we give an extensive overview of studies conducted on preference …

We model the internal game between the leader and the factions of a party, to study the
effect of party leadership on the determinants of electoral success. Factions are of interest or …

This article investigates whether intraparty competition at the election stage–measured by
the distribution of preference votes over candidates running under the same party label–is …

Do Parties Still Represent? Page 1 Do Parties Still Represent? This book examines the
representativeness of party membership and analyses the potential consequences of changing …