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This book examines changes in voters' electoral choices over time and investigates how these changes are linked to a growth in instability. Ruth Dassonneville's core argument, supported by extensive empirical data, is that it is group-based cross-pressures that lead to instability in voters' choices.

Designing Democracy in a Dangerous World addresses a question at the heart of contemporary global politics: how does one craft democracy in fragile and divided states? By bringing new evidence and arguments to bear on the topic of promoting democracy this book contributes to both foreign policy and academic debates.

This book examines long-term single party dominance in modern democracies.

This book analyzes high courts on a global scale and identifying the role of domestic actors and institutions, and international influences upon women appointments.

This book is the in-depth examination of the development of regime personalization in Russia.

This book studies such governments, covering the full life-cycle of coalitions from the formation of party alliances before elections to coalition formation after elections.

Beyond Turnout crafts a new theory that considers the downstream consequences of compulsory voting for both citizens and political parties. This theory is comprehensively tested through data from dozens of countries, with a particular focus on Argentina and Switzerland

This book maps trends in inter-party relations in Europe from 1848 until 2019. It investigates how the length of democratic experience, the institutionalization of individual parties, the fragmentation of parliaments, and the support for anti-establishment parties, shape the degree of institutionalisation of party systems.

This book provides the first systematic book length study of political parties across Central Europe since 1989, and provides new tools and conceptual frameworks that can be used to explain party politics in other regions across the globe.

This book examines the ways in which federal institutions assign fiscal power and policy-making power and how this shapes the long-term development of political competition.

This book explains why several democracies during the period between the two world wars broke down and others survived, and examines the extent to which present-day democracies are fragile in the face of crises.

Parliaments and Coalitions reveals that parliaments play a much more important role in policymaking in parliamentary systems than is usually acknowledged. Based on an analysis of roughly 1,300 government bills across five democracies the book paints a detailed picture of the treatment of government legislation in contemporary parliaments.

Recent election success across the continent strikingly demonstrates the endurance of the extreme right in Europe. This volume provides the definitive account of this important political phenomenon. What is its significance? Why have such parties prospered in some countries and not others? Who votes for them and why?

Several of the world's leading scholars present critical analyses (both conceptual and empirical) of important substantive themes on political parties in contemporary democracies. They critically re-examine the classic concepts and typologies that have guided research in this field over the past decades, and explore new challenges faced by parties today.

A systematic and comprehensive study of 70 electoral systems used by 27 democracies, including those of Western Europe, Australia, Canada, the USA, Costa Rica, India, Israel, Japan and New Zealand. - for 384 national, legislative and European Parliament elections between 1945 and 1990.

This book examines citizens' attitudes towards the political system in which they live. Its focus is the comparison of such attitudes between citizens living in democracies and citizens living in autocracies.

This book provides the first comparative study of coalition governments in Central Eastern Europe. It introduces the players in the coalition game and covers the full life-cycle of coalitions.

Organizing Democratic Choice offers a new, invigorating theory of how democracy actually works. It also presents a challenge to democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither political parties nor mass publics are up to the tasks that democracy assigns them.

This book focuses on the issue of the agenda of party politics. Studying how political parties come to compete about some issues rather than others allows us to assess the role of new political parties. This book highlights the central role of the parties that have traditionally governed in West European countries.

Electoral Malpractice shows how this phenomenon might be reduced by means of a variety of strategies designed to raise the cost of electoral manipulation by increasing the ability of civil society and international actors to monitor and denounce it.

Some of the foremost scholars of European party politics review the latest empirical findings on the challenges currently faced by West European political parties. Published to great critical acclaim in hardback, this paperback edition will be essential reading for anyone interested in the changing nature of western Europe's political parties.

This volume provides a comparative explanation of the institutional evolution of parliaments since the intensification of political competition in the last third of the 19th century.

This book discusses the origins and trajectories of political parties, welfare policies, and income inequality, and how the former two affects the latter.

This volume is the first book length treatment of the cartel party thesis, one of the most influential theories in party politics. It examines what cartelization means for parties and party systems, and what it means for the future of democracy.

This volumes examines two major developments in contemporary democratic politics- the change in party-society linkage and political personalization-and their relation to each other.

This volume re-examines how the incentives created by specific electoral institutions affect the behaviour of voters and party elites. It provides the first systematic analysis of multi-level politics at three distinct levels: regional, national, and European Parliament elections.

This volume presents the first findings of a novel cross-national effort to assess the current state of political parties' internal rules and organizational resources.

This volume explores when, why, and how, democratic institutions are reformed.

This book explains why, and how, political parties in several advanced democracies are undertaking high-profile organizational reforms.

This book answers two fundamental questions for European advanced democracies: how Europeans view democracy (or how democracy should be) and how Europeans evaluate democracy (or how European democracies work in practice).