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 …

We study loss aversion in elections by investigating a median voter model (full convergence
in a two‐candidate election) and a model of partial divergence of policy proposals. First, we …

Making use of a unique data set that includes more than 1000 leadership elections from
over 100 parties in 14 countries over an almost 50 year period, this volume provides the first …

Risk is a central feature of political decision making. Prospect theory, an empirically correct
theory of choice under risk that deals precisely with this condition, therefore seems to have …

With the election of Donald Trump and landmark wins for populists across Europe, one of
today's most pressing questions is: Why do people support populists? We theorize that …

A number of studies have investigated when parties change their policy positions. However,
this growing body of research has had limited interaction with the literature on issue …

How do economic crises affect political representation in times of constrained government?
Our paper shows that among voters salience of economic issues increases during …

Issue competition theories posit that political parties have little incentive to emphasize the
same issues, because they mostly benefit from emphasizing issues where they are viewed …

The reasons pushing parties to politicize noneconomic dimensions of competition, and the
consequences of this for the representation of public opinion, are badly understood in the …

This article explains the variation in opposition behavior by investigating parliamentary
voting of opposition parties across 16 European national parliaments. It finds that features of …