What does EU law truly mean for the member states? This book presents the first
encompassing and in-depth empirical study of the effects of'voluntaristic'and (partly)'soft'EU …

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 …

Why do some parties coordinate their electoral strategies as part of a pre-electoral coalition,
while others choose to compete independently at election time? Scholars have long ignored …

This book adopts an innovative conceptualization and analytical framework to the study of
anti-system parties, and represents the first monograph ever published on the topic. It …

This book investigates the ideological conditions inducing political actors to highlight
corruption issues through valence campaigns. Using case studies and comparative …

Recent research on parliamentary government demonstrates that institutions critically affect
government formation and survival. Yet, surprisingly, virtually no work has explored the …

Which kind of decisions are passed by Cabinet in coalition governments? What motivates
ministerial action? How much leeway do coalition parties give their governmental …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an organizational behavioral perspective
that could provide useful analysis tools to understand the behavior of public leaders working …

Social pacts–policy agreements between governments, labor unions and sometimes
employer organizations–began to emerge in many countries in the 1980s. The most …

Leadership succession marks a truly ubiquitous phenomenon with manifold and wide-
ranging implications, which explains the major attention that issues of succession have …