In this far-reaching work, Swen Hutter demonstrates the usefulness of studying both
electoral politics and protest politics to better understand the impacts of globalization. Hutter …

Political parties regularly change and adapt in response to ever-changing circumstances.
Until now these changes have frequently prompted both scholars and the media to suggest …

Although ideology is a central factor in models of voting choice, little is known about the
factors that explain the variation across elections in the strength of ideological voting. This …

Stein Rokkan's comparative historical account of party system formation in Western Europe
has proved enormously influential due to the appeal of tying individual political behaviour to …

This paper focuses on the policy strategies adopted by social democratic parties and their
impact on the class basis of their support. It is argued that political appeals matter for …

This article proposes a measure of the social structuration of political parties. The measure
has some distinctive virtues. It assesses the social bases of partisanship from the standpoint …

In this article, we investigate voter volatility and analyse the causes and motives of switching
vote intentions. We test two main sets of variables linked to volatility in literature; political …

In the last decades, Western democracies have witnessed an increase in the proportion of
voters who make their electoral choice late in the campaign. Consequently, scholars have …

Since the heyday of cleavage voting in the 1960s and 1970s, the majority of studies
presents evidence of a decline in cleavage voting–caused by either structural or behavioural …

Electorates appear to be adrift. Across Western Europe electoral volatility is increasing. But
are volatile voters whimsical? Do they behave randomly, like drift sand, or are they …