What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR? How has it
reacted, reformed, even revived? This new volume is one of the first to provide an overview …

We make a three-fold contribution to research on the European radical left. First, we will offer
a clear and comprehensive definition of the term 'radical left'. Second, we will look at the …

What are the sources of popular opposition to economic globalization? A common answer in
the literature is the adverse impact of trade liberalization on some people's labor market …

Political parties in post-communist countries have very high levels of electoral volatility. In
these environments, political factions fail to establish long-term connections with the …

European radical left parties (RLPs) are gradually receiving greater attention. Yet, to date,
what has received insufficient focus is why such parties have maintained residues of …

Since Lipset and Rokkan (1967) published their seminal work on the importance of social
cleavages for the 'freezing'of party systems more than forty years ago, much has been …

What explains the success and failure of radical right parties over time and across
countries? This article presents a new theory of the radical right that emphasizes its reactive …

The study of European Union (EU) conditionality has focused on how the governments of
candidate states have changed domestic policies, laws and institutions in order to qualify for …

In light of the instability of several Central Eastern European democracies following their
accession to the European Union, most dramatically embodied by the 'constitutional …

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