Often neglected in the study of far right organisations, post-communist Europe recently
witnessed the rise and fall of a number of populist radical right parties. The Populist Radical …

While pre-electoral coalitions have important effects on the functioning of democracy, their
formation has only been systematically examined in the context of established democracies …

Party Systems in East Central Europeanalyzes the formation of political parties in the nations
of this region. In the first part, the authors concentrate on the key periods and turning points …

While parties in many new democracies frequently split, merge, change labels, and make
and break electoral alliances, comparative systematic research on how these changes are …

In this article, we use a new data set describing governments, political parties and
institutions to make an explicit comparison between Western Europe (WE) and Central …

It is often said that we live in a time of crisis for social democracy. Many of the West
European centre-left parties that seemed the natural parties of government in the second …

Abstract The “Bosnian Uprising” in February 2014 took its spark from the North-Eastern
Bosnian town of Tuzla–a traditionally left-wing city and the only municipality to have actively …

The aim of the study is to map out and analyse the integration of political parties from Central
and Eastern Europe into the main European party families. The prospect of eastern …

The inability of Europarties to provide the electoral linkage between citizens and
policymakers is a key challenge for the European Union. However, relatively young and …

Introduction: the Scruton-Fidesz connection–Literature: Hungary's rule of law backsliding
and the Hungarian constitution–Methods: analysing ideological justifications and …