The radical right in Eastern Europe is similar to its West European cousins in its emphasis
on mobilization against minorities. Until recently, that mobilization was exclusively against …

Why do some parties live fast and die young, but other endure? And why are some party
systems more stable than others? Based on a blend of data derived from both qualitative …

While LGBT activism has increased worldwide, there has been strong backlash against
LGBT people in Eastern Europe. Although Russia is the most prominent anti-gay regime in …

Recent political events have forced an examination of ideologies of populism and
nationalism in politics. In this piece, I examine literature on the post-2016 political context to …

The Parliamentary Powers Index (PPI) developed by Fish and Kroenig (2009) is the most
important effort to date to measure legislative power in cross‐national perspective, but it has …

This article is part of the special cluster titled Parties and Democratic Linkage in Post-
Communist Europe, guest edited by Lori Thorlakson, and will be published in the August …

In contrast to much of the rest of Central and Eastern Europe during the first two post-
communist decades, Czech party politics was characterized by low levels of volatility …

Dosadašnje analize izbornoga ponašanja u Hrvatskoj pokazale su izražene podjele među
biračima oko simboličnih i identitetskih pitanja, utemeljenih na različitom odnosu prema …

The literature on party competition structure in eastern Europe varies between aggregated
large-N studies that propose uniform patterns of party competition across the region on the …

Electoral behavior in comparatively young democracies shares significant similarities with
that found in older, established Western democratic settings, and yet also differs in …