Despite the increasing interest in populism, there is a lack of comparative and longterm
evidence on the electoral performance of populist parties. We address this gap by using a …

From 6 to 9 June 2024, more than four-hundred-million voters from the 27 member states of
the European Union had the opportunity to vote in the 2024 elections for the European …

This chapter analyses the standing of democracy in the EU and, in particular, the extent to
which parliaments (national and European) function as arenas for political opposition in …

In the aftermath of a European Parliament (EP) election, there are normally two prominent
aspects that receive attention by scholars and experts: the turnout rate and whether the …

In the digital age, political science is faced with a shift of election campaigns and political
discourse to digital or virtual arenas. Because the internet is a highly volatile medium and …

In the digital age, political science is faced with a shift of election campaigns and political
discourse to digital or virtual arenas. Because the internet is a highly volatile medium and …

But in other ways, the 2024 elections will be very similar to the previous ones, in particular
the 2019 elections (see Mudde, 2019b). Most voters will again see them as “second-order …

The primary theme of this thesis is bringing together the multiscalarity of locally determined
economic inequality with the multiscalarity of different electoral levels. It asks how economic …