Theories of mass politics have stressed the value of partisanship in providing citizens with
cues for political decision making. The expanding political skills and resources of …

4 Introduction and economic security. The success of advanced industrialism has fulfilled
many basic economic needs for a sizable sector of the population. Thus concerns are …

Using Carmines and Stimson's issue evolution model of partisan change, I argue that the
abortion issue has transformed the two major United States political parties and that this …

Most scholars agree that members of Congress are strongly motivated by their desire for
reelection. This assumption implies that members of Congress adopt institutions, rules, and …

Obgleich das demokratische Ideal uneingeschränkt bejaht wird, stehen die Systeme, die
sich auf das Ideal berufen, immer heftiger in der Kritik. Doch diese Differenz ist nicht so neu …

Though local and regional politics are often ignored in political-behavior literature, analyses
of these areas are fundamental to understanding the scope of political change in the …

In the past two decades, the tranquility of European electoral politics was disrupted by the
rise of new social movements and a number of smaller New Left parties. These …

The oldest answered question in the social sciences is 'Why do societies collapse?'. I
advance a theory of the collapse of societies that is based on self-organized criticality, which …

elections, voting behavior and public opinion are arguably among the most prominent and
intensively researched sub-fields within political science. it is an evolving sub-field, in terms …

Brexit au Royaume-Uni, montée de l'extrême-droite en Autriche, élection de Donald Trump
aux États-Unis, d'Emmanuel Macron en France, percée des Cinq étoiles en Italie et de …