Political parties play a vital role in democracies by linking citizens to their representatives.
Nonetheless, a longstanding concern is that partisan identification slants decision-making …

While foreign pundits have alternatively blamed and praised the Chinese government's
handling of the COVID-19 virus, little is known about how citizens within China understand …

Social policies can transform the lives of the poor and marginalized, yet inequitable
implementation often limits their access. Uneven Social Policies shifts the focus of welfare …

La pandemia del coronavirus es una crisis sanitaria a gran escala que afecta al conjunto de
la población mundial. Por ello, en el presente artículo se realiza una aproximación a la …

We introduce experimental research design to the study of policy diffusion in order to better
understand how political ideology affects policymakers' willingness to learn from one …

This article introduces a special issue of West European Politics on the COVID-19 crisis. It
first sets out the dual challenge to democratic principles and democratic performance that …

Theories about the decline of legitimacy or a legitimacy crisis are as old as democracy itself.
Yet, representative democracy still exists, and the empirical evidence for a secular decline of …

The recent spate of mass public shootings in the United States raises important questions
about how these tragic events might impact mass opinion and public policy. Integrating …

This study examines how a particular set of calculative practices and classification systems
helped to guide the emergency responses to the 2009 earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy …

The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease is overwhelming resources, economies
and countries around the world. Millions of people have been infected and hundreds of …