Many scholars and pundits have argued that there is a growing urban-rural divide in political
attitudes in the US and Europe. However, it is an empirical question whether and how …

The debate on personalization in electoral politics is inconclusive. There is confusion about
the concept of personalization. Moreover, the fact that party evaluation and person …

Political behavior has been changing all over Western Europe and electoral volatility is one
of the facets of politics in which this change is apparent. Theories on stabilization of political …

For over 40 years now, the debate on the hierarchical opinion structure within political
parties has been colored by May's laws of General and Special curvilinear disparity. Their …

In this article we empirically test an explanatory model for political cynicism. A quota sample
of 543 Dutch youngsters completed a questionnaire, consisting of 62 mainly closed-ended …

This chapter investigates how inter-temporal changes in the electoral winner–loser status
affect voters' beliefs in the legitimacy of young democracies. More specifically, we focus on …

An overwhelming body of literature concentrates on whether governments and
representatives share congruent opinions with the general public. Though these are …

An important issue is whether respondents understood the electoral rules under which they
were asked to cast a vote. If respondents did not understand that they had different options …

Who represents labor market outsiders in the age of dualization? This article provides a
government partisanship explanation for the cross-national variation in the political …

Electoral volatility as measured by the Pedersen index is probably one of the most popular
indicators in political science, but its interpretation is far from clear. Volatility is produced by a …