Using data from the Comparative Manifestos Project, we compare the policy positions of left
and right parties with regard to immigration across 18 West European countries between …

Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in
states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small …

This article argues that the perforation of national states by immigration, integration and
trade may signify a critical juncture in the political development of Europe no less …

The European Union (EU) is facing one of the rockiest periods in its existence. No time in its
history has it looked so economically fragile, so unsecure about how to protect its borders …

This book examines VOX, the first major and electorally successful populist radical right-
wing party to emerge in Spain since the death of General Franco, and the restoration of …

The rise of the radical right fundamentally changes the face of electoral competition in
Western Europe. Bipolar competition is becoming tripolar, as the two dominant party poles of …

This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and
Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in …

Populism is a concept that is currently in vogue among political commentators and, more
often than not, used pejoratively. The phenomenon of populism is typically seen as …

How is populism distributed over the political spectrum? Are right-wing parties more populist
than left-wing parties? Based on the analysis of 32 parties in five Western European …

What are the consequences of globalization for the structure of political conflicts in Western
Europe? How are political conflicts organized and articulated in the twenty-first century? And …