Since Lipset and Rokkan (1967) published their seminal work on the importance of social
cleavages for the 'freezing'of party systems more than forty years ago, much has been …

What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the
experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater …

Page 1 DAUNIS AUERS COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT OF THE BALTIC
STATES - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 21st Century Page 2 Comparative Politics and …

This book offers a rigorous empirical and theoretical analysis of an important dimension of
European integration-the implementation of EU legislation and its effect in the wake of the …

This review of the historical studies of cleavages and seeks to bridge the gap between the
historical study of cleavages and frozen cleavage theory and the post‑‑communist states of …

In the first two post-communist decades, party politics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
displayed a remarkable degree of variation. Some party systems were stable, others were …

Contemporary democracies show considerable differences in the issue composition of their
protest politics, which tends to remain relatively stable over time. In countries like Germany …

Over the past two decades, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have completed a
long transition from authoritarian rule, and joining the EU has been considered to be an …

In a dramatic late-evening televised address to the nation in May 2011, Valdis Zatlers
became the first president in Latvian history to trigger a clause in the Latvian constitution …

When we try to analyse and judge more than one decade of post-communist transformation
and dcmOCl"'" dtic development, cleavages can provide us with a suitable framework for …