The European Union has had to deal with a series of crises in the past, but currently, it faces
an exceptional accumulation of tensions triggered by the eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis …

How does the ideological profile of a political party affect its support or opposition to
European integration? The authors investigate this question with a new expert data set on …

Rationale Public health policies are often dependent on political decision-making, but little is
known of the impact of different forms of government on countries' health policies. In this …

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 …

Political Choice Matters investigates the extent to which class and religion influence party
choice in contemporary democracies. Rather than the commonly-assumed process in which …

Josip Broz Tito's saying that'one should not hold on to the law like a drunken man holds on
to a fence'remains a valid piece of popular wisdom today, encapsulating the problem of …

This major new text by two leading authorities in the field provides a state-of-the-art
assessment of what we know about voting behaviour and the character, consequences and …

How do political parties in Central and Eastern Europe position themselves on European
integration? We show that the strongest predictor of a party's stance is ideology. The …

The actual role that parties fulfill in the region is hotly debated, however. Some authors
include parties among the chief agents of the transition and consolidation (eg, Ágh, 1998a; …

The literature on party system change and electoral volatility in post-communist Europe
tends to make a clear-cut distinction between Central and Eastern European (CEE) party …