" 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 …

Dies ist die sechste, grundlegend überarbeitete, aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage einer
Einführung in klassische und moderne Theorien der Demokratie, die erstmals 1995 …

This study focuses on how citizens' satisfaction with democracy is affected by system factors
related to the input side of the democratic system, ie the electoral dimension, as well as to …

The Manifesto data are the only comprehensive set of policy indicators for social, economic
and political research. It is thus vital that their quality is established. The purpose of this book …

Implicit in theories of democratic elections is the idea of change—or at least the potential for
change. Elections provide the opportunity for citizens to change their party preferences and …

Recent studies analyze how citizens update their perceptions of parties' left‐right positions
in response to new political information. We extend this research to consider the issue of …

Do parties learn from or emulate parties in other political systems? This research develops
the argument that parties are more likely to employ the heuristic of learning from and …

Electoral manifestos play a crucial role in visions of party democracy and political science
analyses of party competition. While research has focused on the contents of manifestos, we …

The link between public opinion and public policy is of special importance in representative
democracies, as we expect elected officials to care about what voters think. Not surprisingly …

Este artigo apresenta uma revisão da literatura internacional referente a estudos empíricos
sobre representação política no âmbito das instituições centrais da democracia …