Existing studies suggest that right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) appeal to people in
communities that have fallen behind in material terms. However, it remains open which …

What is the relationship between regional inequality and political discontent in Europe? This
special issue addresses this question by studying the influence of the subnational context …

Climate change, health pandemics, structural decline, and more–the challenges of solving
political problems are daunting, particularly when the political institutions addressing them …

Governments need to make choices over distributing resources and managing
socioeconomic change, which can have geographically uneven effects. This may give rise to …

While in recent times many regions have flourished, many others are stuck—or are at risk of
becoming stuck—in a development trap. Such regions experience decline in economic …

ABSTRACT I study if industrial decarbonisation yields elevated perceptions of political and
economic unfairness. Decarbonising industry is central for the Green Transition, but it will …

This article examines the relationship between changes in manufacturing employment and
political discontent in European regions, using a multilevel hybrid model and data from the …

It is not only the states of the European Union (EU) that are heterogeneous in many
respects, but also the regions existing within them. In this paper, we make use of a conjoint …

This article explores the intersection of structural and actor-oriented explanations of
populism through a territorial perspective, focusing on populist Euroscepticism. It builds on …

Social Europe, or the social dimension of the European Union (EU), has been receiving
increasing attention in academic debates. This special issue introduction discusses Social …