Like many party systems across Western Europe, the Dutch party system has been in flux
since 2002 as a result of a series of related developments, including the decline of …

This article discusses the need for standards for the assignment of importance to criteria and
the measurement of interaction between them in multiple criteria analyses of complex …

In recent decades, the new institutionalism has strongly emerged in social sciences.
Institutions have come back to the main research agenda in economics, politics and …

The effect of electoral rules on voter turnout has been extensively studied. 1 Most empirical
studies tend to report a regularity that can be summarized as follows: more proportional …

The area of Balkan Studies has been too long neglected in recent history. The dispersed
microcommunities who have an interest in the topic coexist more than they collaborate. The …

The use of new photo-sharing services in social networks has favoured a perception of the
interests of locals and visitors. The photos presented in these networks are geocoded by the …

abstract Parliaments channel legislation efforts and oversight functions to parliamentary
committees in order for them to transform policy ideas into agreed-upon policies and then …

Although Greece has been brought to the forefront of international attention over the last 10
years, much is still to be learned from this badly understood country. Far away from standard …

Bruno Frey in a recent article on the future of Democracy has given us some insights about
how to extend democracy. My comments on the article suggest that important deficits of …

Formal modelers of party competition often have to face the fact that their models predict far
too centrist equilibrium positions when compared to empirically observed party positions …