This article discusses recent research on party politics and the welfare state that differs from
traditional 'partisan politics theory'. The traditional approach states that left-wing and right …

Stein Rokkan's comparative historical account of party system formation in Western Europe
has proved enormously influential due to the appeal of tying individual political behaviour to …

A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is
returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The …

This article argues that the perforation of national states by immigration, integration and
trade may signify a critical juncture in the political development of Europe no less …

The last decades have seen the emergence of a divide pitting the new left against the far
right in advanced democracies. We study how this universalism-particularism divide is …

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens
have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very …

The rise of the radical right fundamentally changes the face of electoral competition in
Western Europe. Bipolar competition is becoming tripolar, as the two dominant party poles of …

We document the surge of economic nationalist and radical-right parties in western Europe
between the early 1990s and 2016. We discuss how economic shocks contribute to …

The central political claim of Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism is that class actors, through
the instruments of the democratic process, can modify capitalism. Where working-class …

Relatively little research has explored whether there is a systemic urban-rural divide in the
political and socioeconomic attitudes of citizens across Europe. Drawing on individual-level …