Class voting is supposedly in severe decline in advanced industrial democracies. However,
this conventional wisdom derives from research using problematic methods and measures …

Despite its centrality in European politics, Christian democracy came to be the object of
systematic research only recently. We review the research that has emerged since the mid …

Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present
stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

" The book's combined focus on parties as institutions and systems, alongside political
attitudes and behaviors, is why I use it... I have yet to find another text that accomplishes …

This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media
and the political system. Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West …

We maintain that a concept of human needs is an essential component in formulating a
feasible socialist vision of what the future could be like. We believe that such a vision is a …

This paper develops and applies an issue ownership theory of voting that emphasizes the
role of campaigns in setting the criteria for voters to choose between candidates. It expects …

The scientific debate about populism has been revitalised by the recent rise of extreme‐right
parties in Western Europe. Within the broad discussion about populism and its relationship …

This article has two aims. The first attempts to define the 'extreme right'political family. The
three criteria adopted—spatial, historic‐ideological, attitudinal‐systemic—have led us to …