Career Behaviour and the European Parliament seeks to answer the question of how a
political institution, such as the European Parliament, can impact the career ambitions and …

This article assesses the conditions of partisan influence on public policy change, by
comparing the action of the German and French Greens with regard to energy during their …

This article aims to capture the effect of candidate selection on campaign personalisation
during two Hungarian general elections (2010 and 2014). Our main hypothesis is that …

Multiple-mandate holding, ie, the holding of more than one directly elected mandate
simultaneously on different government tiers, is a controversial practice with potential …

Traditionally, scholars have assumed that multiple office-holding (ie the combination of a
local and national directly elected political mandate) leads to an enhanced electoral …

This article deals with multiple-office holdings by legislators in the Czech Republic during
the VI. Chamber of Deputies, 2010–2013. First, both positive and negative theoretical …

Participation in organizational democracy is viewed in widely different ways: both positively,
as schools of democracy, and more negatively, as elite pools of democracy. However, most …

The practice of multiple‐mandate holding is widespread across Europe. Critics argue that
this practice contributes to a concentration of political power, a higher risk for conflicts of …

Demand-side studies of populism, adapting a citizen perspective, have grown exponentially
during the last decade as a result of a growing political and academic concern over the …

Traditionally, scholars have always assumed that exercising a local political mandate as a
national legislator intrinsically interferes with the intra parliamentary output. Despite the …