Long gone are the times when class-based political parties with extensive membership
dominated politics. Instead, party politics has become issue-based. Surprisingly few studies …

This article demonstrates that the issue-yield concept is able to predict the electoral
strategies of mainstream and challenger parties at the 2017 German federal election. While …

Under the motto" God, homeland, and family"-but also by stressing one further important
marker of social identity, ie, gender-Italian radical right party leader Giorgia Meloni multiplied …

Extant research points to the importance of social identity and group attitudes for political
behavior. Even though this should have important consequences for political …

This article develops and tests a model that explains election outcomes on the basis of party
strategy. It employs a new comparative dataset linking representative mass surveys from six …

Political parties increasingly operate at multiple political levels. Nevertheless, we do not yet
know much about the consequences of these multilevel electoral systems (MLESs) on party …

The analysis of issue politics has long suffered from a fragmentation between valence and
positional conceptualisations, preventing the effective development of a general model of …

The 2018 election made it clear the Swedish politics of migration no longer was an outlier in
comparative European perspective. In this contribution, we analyse some of the reasons …

The 2018 Italian election produced striking results, with both a historic success for the two
challenger parties (League and M5S) and massive defeats for the two mainstream parties …

In this article we examine the phenomenon of the use of sovereignist claims, not only by
nationalist or populist leaders but also by actors who would not normally fall into these …