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 …

In this paper, we map the political space of individual-level voter preferences throughout
European capitalist regimes, and we assess both its socio-structural determinants and its …

The cleavage concept is a very demanding concept that limits the possibilities of finding any
new examples of cleavages. And, indeed, many authors, some of whom contributing to the …

Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no
formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically …

The rise of a new transnational divide on immigration and Europe raises fundamental
questions about the character of party competition and the causal bases of voting. Using …

In a cleavage perspective, political conflicts and the rise and decline of political parties are
shaped by structural political potentials that arise from the gradual evolution of social …

Over the past decades, electoral support for Green parties has gradually increased in
Western Europe, especially among young people. This begs the question whether there are …

Parties have an incentive to take up extreme positions in order to achieve policy
differentiation and issue ownership, and it would make sense for a party to stress these …

The current study examines the contribution of left–right (or liberal–conservative) ideology to
voting, as well as the extent to which basic values account for ideological orientation …