Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism. Gender binarism. Together, they comprise intimately
harmful, distinct, and entangled societal systems of self-serving domination and privilege …

How are the contours of Western European politics shifting? To what extent do these shifts
reflect changes in the underlying social and economic structure of European polities? In this …

" The book's combined focus on parties as institutions and systems, alongside political
attitudes and behaviors, is why I use it... I have yet to find another text that accomplishes …

Bundestagswahlen, Landtagswahlen, Kommunalwahlen, Europawahlen–seit Jahren sinkt
die Wahlbeteiligung in Deutschland. Doch was steht hinter diesem Trend und was bedeutet …

Despite the increasing academic interest in populism, we still lack understanding of
individual factors contributing to populist voting. One of the main reasons for this is that …

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

Since the heyday of cleavage voting in the 1960s and 1970s, the majority of studies
presents evidence of a decline in cleavage voting–caused by either structural or behavioural …

Contemporary political behavior is often affected by historical legacies, but the specific
mechanisms through which these legacies are transmitted are difficult to pin down. This …

Party identification traditionally is seen as an important linkage mechanism, connecting
voters to the party system. Previous analyses have suggested that the level of party identity …

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 …