Are political leaders less popular among voters than they used to be? If so, why? Many
studies have mapped a decline in citizens' political trust and satisfaction with democracy, but …

Abstract Voting behaviour in Western Europe has become increasingly structured by
attitudes towards socio-cultural issues, such as immigration and European unification. This …

The personalization thesis claims that leaders' influence over voters has increased. While
research consistently shows that candidates influence party choice, we know little about …

Since Converse's paper, opinion constraint has been defined as the degree to which voters
hold ideologically consistent opinions across different issues. Yet, scholars have found that …

Latin American democracies have been characterised as the product of personalistic
leaders relying on their unique qualities to achieve and maintain political power. However …

In this paper we focus on the political communication activities of the candidates of the
radical left parties (RLPs), emphasizing their campaign activities during electioneering. We …

Young people are three times more present in the population than in elected assemblies.
Their critical underrepresentation has so far received much less scholarly attention than …

Research has found that as the effective number of political parties increases, people are
more likely to delay their voting decisions. Yet, since voters have different political …

While there is a considerable range of academic literature on affective polarisation
regarding the United States, interest in the previously largely ignored European context has …

Im vorliegenden Aufsatz untersuchen wir die Wechsel-und Wiederwahlentscheidungen, die
der Verschiebung der parteipolitischen Kräfteverhältnisse von der Bundestagswahl 2017 …