Almost 500 municipal solid waste incineration plants in the EU, Norway and Switzerland
generate about 17.6 Mt/a of incinerator bottom ash (IBA). IBA contains minerals and metals …

Research on party competition and political representation relies on valid cross-national
measures of party positions. This research note reports on the 1999–2019 Chapel Hill …

This chapter offers an overview of the attempts that have been made to locate the positions
of political actors in policy and/or ideological spaces over the past twenty-five years or so. I …

Populism studies have rapidly burgeoned but systematic global empirical evidence about
this phenomenon has lagged behind. How can party values be measured in consistent …

Populism has become a pervasive concept in political science research. However, a central
and basic question remains unanswered: which European parties are more populist than …

Within less than two years of being founded by disgruntled members of the governing CDU,
the newly formed Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has already performed extraordinarily …

What are the consequences of globalization for the structure of political conflicts in Western
Europe? How are political conflicts organized and articulated in the twenty-first century? And …

This article reports on the 2010 Chapel Hill expert surveys (CHES) and introduces the CHES
trend file, which contains measures of national party positioning on European integration …

Preferences over jurisdictional architecture are the product of three irreducible logics:
efficiency, distribution and identity. This article substantiates the following claims:(a) …

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …