Radical right parties are becoming increasingly likely candidates to participate in
government coalitions in Western Europe. Comparative research on the electoral …

This book is an examination of minority government performance in conjunction with the
territorial distribution of state power and the territorial interests of political parties. It examines …

Recent studies document that voters infer parties' left‐right policy agreement based on
governing coalition arrangements. This article extends this research to present theoretical …

Over the past two decades, a growing number of 'outsider parties' have entered governing
centre-left and centre-right coalitions across Western Europe. In this introduction, we first …

This chapter argues that the nation-state became the primary form of political organization
from about the end of the 18th century and that it reached its culmination in the form of the …

How do sub-state nationalists respond to the growing presence of cultural diversity in their
'homelands' resulting from migration? Sub-state nationalists in Europe, in 'nations without …

This book studies the dynamics of political discourse in governance processes. It
demonstrates the process in which political discourses become normative mechanisms, first …

How is government affected by including populists in a governing coalition? We investigate
if populist political parties behave 'normally'when they attain power, or if they govern …

Central governments in multinational states frequently deploy indirect rule to contain
peripheral nationalism. Through the exchange of economic resources for political control …

This article examines the strategic behaviour of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in regional
elections from 1999 to 2016. It builds on recent work that has theorized the kind of strategic …