Populism and Liberal Democracy is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory about
populism during both its emergence and consolidation phases in three geographical …

What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR? How has it
reacted, reformed, even revived? This new volume is one of the first to provide an overview …

This article makes the case for a novel democratic subtype, populist democracy, indicating a
situation in which both the party in office and at least the major opposition force (s) in a …

The second half of the twentieth century has witnessed several waves of democratization in
Europe, the Americas, and in other regions of the world, such as South East Asia. Although …

Governments led by technocrats remain a nebulous category in political science literature,
with little clarity about how they differ from party governments, how many have existed and …

Within the rapidly growing literature on positioning political parties along policy dimensions,
the rich data series collected by the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) has been widely …

The book offers a solid theory and conceptualization of technocratic politics and the
technocratic challenge is analyzed empirically at all levels of the national and supra-national …

With the elections of 2015–16 in Greece, Spain and Portugal, the political fallout from the
economic crisis in Southern Europe reached a new level. An overview of the new electoral …

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) made
remarkable 'turns towards civil society'over the last decade. It is argued that this was …

This book adopts an innovative conceptualization and analytical framework to the study of
anti-system parties, and represents the first monograph ever published on the topic. It …