Political opposition has long been one of the most dramatically understudied elements of
real-world politics in contemporary democratic and authoritarian regimes. The past decade …

Most analyses dealing with the interaction of parties in parliament assume their interests to
be fixed between elections. However, a rational perspective suggests that parties adapt their …

Advances in data accessibility and analytical methods opened new frontiers for comparative
studies of European legislative activities. However, these advances still need to be fully …

Are election campaigns relevant to policymaking, as they should in a democracy? This book
sheds new light on this central democratic concern based on an ambitious study of …

Various research have been directed towards investigating the behaviour of political parties
engaging in attacks. However, this topic has predominantly been studied in campaigning …

Studies examining parties' attack behaviour, also called negative campaigning, largely
neglect temporal dynamics. Therefoe, this paper examines how the electoral cycle, the …

Despite growing scholarship on the politics of sociotechnical transitions, the role of
aparticularly relevant actor type–political parties–has been largely overlooked. To address …

In democracies, electoral mandates are meant to shape public policy. But how much leeway
do elected representatives actually have to implement it? Influential scholars think that …

A crucial feature of the democratic life cycle, government stability, has prompted the interest
of many scholars across the globe. As a result, research on this matter has established itself …

This article analyses the legislative agenda in Ireland since 1922 using new data coded
within the Comparative Agendas Project framework. The data, generated using the …