The main area of sustained populist growth in recent decades has been Western Europe,
where populist parties have not only endured longer than expected, but have increasingly …

Early in the 1950s my parents tired of summer holidays mostly spent on chilly wind-swept
beaches and embarked, with hire car, tents, and four young children, on what was, in the …

A comparative analysis of political websites and their users from seven Western
democracies. Digital politics is shorthand for how internet technologies have fueled the …

Political Choice Matters investigates the extent to which class and religion influence party
choice in contemporary democracies. Rather than the commonly-assumed process in which …

Keith Dowding first started collecting data on ministerial resignations in the UK in 1991 when
Brunel University gave him some money to employ a student for work placement duty. Many …

THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
Page 1 THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS AND THE EUROPEAN …

Italy was the first Western country to be dramatically overwhelmed by Covid-19, the first
country outside of China to implement lockdown measures and, until mid-April 2020, the …

The Italian Health care System provides universal coverage for comprehensive health
services and is mainly financed through general taxation. Since the early 1990s, a strong …

In the last decade, political pressure from international organisms has contributed to the
divulgation and the adoption of social accountability practices. Using an inductive method …

Drawing on a mixed research methodology with a strong qualitative character, this book
traces the political impact of the British National Party in the UK, the Front National in France …