Given the crucial role of Green parties in modern party systems, surprisingly little is known
about the impact that Green parties in governments have on distributive issues, on the …

Why do left parties lose vote shares in times of economic crisis and hardship? Why do right-
wing governments implement seemingly left-wing policies, such as labor market activation …

Education has long played an important role in social policy as a means for strengthening
labour market integration and increasing social mobility. The shift towards a knowledge …

In both public and scholarly debates, globalisation has recently been accredited with a
massive impact on the political preferences and electoral behaviour of Western citizens …

Late Peter Mair argued that, in the contemporary multilevel institutional setting of global
governance, parties are faced with a dilemma between Responsiveness and Responsibility …

This article analyses individual level support for a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) using the
European Social Survey. At the country level, support is highest in South and Central …

Abstract Since the Golden Age of the Welfare State ended, the male‐breadwinner family
model traditionally supported by conservative parties has been put under pressure …

In the advanced peripheral economies of East-Central Europe, right-wing populist parties
have increasingly politicized the dualism between larger, export-competitive foreign-owned …

Description: Second edition.| Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routedge, 2020.| Includes
bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019035535 (print)| LCCN …

Most political systems consist of multiple layers. While this fact is widely acknowledged, we
know surprisingly little about its implications for policy-making. Most comparative studies still …