Until 2017, Germany was an exception to the success of radical right parties in postwar
Europe. We provide new evidence for the transformation of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) …

Conventional wisdom suggests that partisanship has little impact on voter behavior in Brazil;
what matters most is pork-barreling, incumbent performance, and candidates' charisma. This …

For more than a century party members have played a central role in many parliamentary
democracies, helping political parties to mobilize voters, and visibly linking party leaders …

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 …

6.1 Effects of party ideology, party organization and leadership, party competition and
electoral institutions on the right-wing extremist party vote (OLS regression): Model 1 206 6.2 …

Ingrid van Biezen provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of party formation and
organizational development in recently established democracies. She focuses on four …

Over the past years, parties often described as populist, such as SYRIZA in Greece, the Five
Star Movement (FSM) in Italy and Podemos in Spain have made significant electoral …

Party and Democracy questions why political parties today are held in such low estimation in
advanced democracies. The first part of the volume reviews theoretical motivations behind …

Recent electoral success of the Freedom Party in Austria, List Pim Fortuyn in The
Netherlands, the People's Party in Denmark and the National Front in France have …

Das Buch berücksichtigt die seit 1999 eingetretenen Entwicklungen, die in mehreren
Ländern (Österreich, Italien, Niederlande) zur Regierungsbeteiligung oder-übernahme …