From India to Turkey, from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized
power. Two core components of liberal democracy—individual rights and the popular will …

The saliency of religious parties in recent democratic consolidation processes forces the
discipline to reconsider key questions on party change: Under what conditions do (radical) …

This book has three aims. Firstly, it explores the extreme right in order to assess its
ideological meaning and its political expression. Beginning with a discussion of the meaning …

This second edition of Doing Research in Political Science is a thoroughly revised and
updated version of the book that was originally published in 1999. In revising this edition we …

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 …

This book provides a systematic comparative analysis of how and why voting behaviour has
changed in Europe in recent decades. It has been widely argued that radical changes have …

This article challenges the dominant assumptions in the literature that cutting social policy
incurs voter wrath and that political parties can efficiently internalise electoral fallout with …

Political Parties in Post-Communist Eastern Europe is the first textbook to survey the course
of party developments in eastern Europe as a whole in the post-Communist period. This …

Since the 1980s, political scientists have developed a renewed interest in the study of
political institutions, based on the assumption that" institutions matter"-that is, that formal …

Political parties in post-communist countries have very high levels of electoral volatility. In
these environments, political factions fail to establish long-term connections with the …