What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have
in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of …

Abstract S chakel AH and J effery C. Are regional elections really 'second-order'elections,
Regional Studies. This article critically assesses the applicability of the second-order …

This paper empirically examines whether government ideology and government
fragmentation have influenced the process of CO 2-emission reductions in the time period …

We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model that yields testable implications about the
fiscal policy run by governments of different political color. Successive generations of voters …

Using a unique dataset of the personal characteristics of national finance ministers in
Western Europe (1980–2010), I show that a finance minister's experience affects the …

This article revisits institutional constraints to political budget cycles (PBCs) in the enlarged
European Union (EU). Based on a panel of 25 Member States, we show that governments …

This paper investigates whether different capitalist varieties in Central and Eastern Europe
have different records of post-accession compliance. Drawing on an explorative cluster …

We test three criteria for recording data about the formation of a new government and the
allocation of its portfolios using the case of Israel. We then analyse Gamson's Law and …

Since the early 1990s, political actors, journalists and scholars have been monitoring the
evolution of the parliamentary arena in order to spot any signs of adaptation to the …

Studying the interaction between religion and labor is a relatively new subfield of
economics, while political representation is well investigated in political science. The current …