Party Politics

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Two-party competition in the United States: Reversed growth trends	34
Book review: Minority party misery: Political powerlessness and electoral disengagement	29
Effects of electoral margins on party loyalty in the roll call votes: Evidence from the 20th National Assembly in South Korea	28
Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project	27
Erratum to “20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues”	26
Between cabinet membership and opposition: Commitment and responsibility of support parties	23
Lipset and Rokkan’s missing case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset	22
The populist spiral: How populist rhetoric spreads within party systems	22
Book Review: The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destory Democracy from Within FrantzEKendall-TaylorAWrightJ. The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destory De	20
Book Review: A History of the People’s Action Party 1985-2021	19
Unionist unity? Strategic voting at Scottish parliamentary elections	19
Book Review: Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform	18
Book Review: Small power: How local parties shape elections	16
Book Review: Midterms and Mandates: Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties	16
Book Review: The Rise of Entrepreneurial Parties in European Politics	15
Co-partisanship with mayors, institutional performance, and citizen trust in local governance institutions: Evidence from Tunisia	14
Book Review: When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Decline of the Right in Postcommunist Europe	14
20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues	13
Mapping ethics self-regulation within political parties: Norms, oversight and enforcement	13
Why is progressive policy reform in Kosovo uncertain, despite the accelerated power shift to the left?	13
Lost but not blown away: How do losers of party leadership contests react?	13
Leaders or parties? Practices of candidate selection in Western Europe	12
Book Review: Hate Speech and Political Violence: Far-Right Rhetoric from the Tea Party to the Insurrection NacosBrigitte L.Bloch-ElkonYaeliShapiroRobert Y.. Hate Speech and Political Violence: Far-Rig	12
Book Review: Reform and Retrenchment: A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections BoatrightRobert G, Reform and Retrenchment: A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections. New York: Oxford Universi	11
What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament	11

True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party	11
One foot in parliament, one on the streets: Studying the fluid relation between individual participation and party evaluations of protest	11
How green is my party? Programmatic stances towards environmental protection in Europe	11
Mapping issue salience divergence in Europe from 1945 to the present	11
Book Review: The Danish Voter: Democratic Ideals and Challenges	10
Survival of the social? Effects of intra-party cooperation on MP renomination	10
Book Review: A history of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Parties TorranceDavid (2024) A History of The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Parties. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 290 pp	10
Deliberative democracy in contemporary political parties: Longitudinal evidence from Norway	10
Moral justification for misinformation: Evidence from a survey experiment during the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign	10
Ambivalence across the globe: Investigating political ambivalence and its impact on vote switching in 52 multi-party systems	9
Different shades of leadership: A comparative assessment of leaders’ traits in explaining the vote for populist radical right parties	9
Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe: A comparative analysis of six countries	9
Political groups over national parties: Measuring the Europeanization of the political arena through MEPs’ Twitter interactions	9
The story of Party Politics (so far)	9
It’s not only about the leader: Oligarchized personalization and preference voting in Belgium	8
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties	8
Book review: Power shifts: Congress and presidential representation	8
Determinants of government duration: Correcting for hyper inflating measures	8
Book Review: Parties, political finance, and governance in Africa: Extracting money and shaping states in Benin and Ghana SigmanRachel, Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting	8
Party primaries and turnout: Meso-level explanations	8
The two faces of issue polarisation and their impact on party competition in Western Europe	7
Within-country determinants of political party structures: Similarity-based analysis of Polish party statutes	7
Polarising the Christian West: Us and them in far-right parties’ rhetoric	7
Red vs blue hubris: Clarifying the relationship between partisanship and (anti)intellectualism	7
Delayed shock? How Brexit conditioned campaign effects in British general elections	7
Book Review: Civil Society’s Democratic Potential. Organizational Trade-Offs between Participation and Representation BolleyerNicole, Civil Society’s Democratic Potential. Organizational Trade-Offs be	7
Explaining the migrant–native vote gap under open-list proportional representation	7
Ranking of candidates on slates: Evidence from 20,000 electoral slates	7
Non-mainstream left parties, primaries, and women’s winning chances in leadership contests	7
Government partisans: A practical typology	7
Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions	6
Capitalized rallies: Why campaign costs are rising and rallies are hybridizing in Tanzania	6
The effect of ruling party change and party ideology on participatory budgeting stability: Survivors and victims of local elections	6
What drives the intra-party democracy of the “Alternative for Germany”: Populist ideology, low institutionalisation or lack of party unity?	6
Candidate visibility, voter knowledge, and the incumbency advantage in preferential-list PR	6
Book Review: The Art of the Impossible: How to Start a Political Party (and Why You Probably Shouldn’t). The Inside Story of The Brexit Party	6
Book Review: The 2021 German Federal Election CampbellRossDavidson-SchmichLouise K. (2023) The 2021 German Federal Election. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. £109.99 (hbk); £109.99 (pbk), XXIII + 444pp. ISBN	6
Tales of the unexpected: Promissory representation in times of uncertainty and economic downturn	6
Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies: Evidence from Latin America, 1993–2016	6
Populist radical-right junior coalition partners and liberal democracy in Europe	6
Book Review: Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe KluverHeikeBackHannaKraussSvenja, Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance	6
Why do party elites incentivise activism? The case of the populist radical right	6
Electoral mobilisation in turbulent times	6
How non-radical right parties strategically use nativist language: Evidence from an automated content analysis of Austrian, German, and Swiss election manifestos	5
Book Review: The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand	5
The strategic ambiguity of the radical right: A study of the Danish People’s Party	5
Measuring party system institutionalization in democracies	5
Why do voters vote for third parties in single member districts? A test of four strategic voting conditions	5
Book Review: The Inter- and Transnational Politics of Populism: Foreign Policy, Identity and Popular Sovereignty	5
Intertwined fates? Members switching between niche and mainstream parties	5

Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia	5
Born out of civil wars: Are former rebel parties an organizationally distinct type of party?	5
Reluctant cooptation: The legislative recruitment of the private sector into Russia’s dominant party, 2015–2020	5
The party system effects of unstable electoral rules in Latin America	5
‘Void’ democrats? The populist notion of ‘democracy’ in action	5
Book Review: Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government	5
Book Review: Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe: Views From the Capitals	5
Liberalism and illiberalism in Myanmar’s National League for Democracy	5
The relationship between local councillors’ representative style and their support for participatory democracy	5
Does it matter who is in charge? Ministerial characteristics and pledge fulfilment	4
Multi-level legislative representation in an inchoate party system: Mass-elite ideological congruence in Brazil	4
How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns?	4
Gendered dynamics in representation: Examining candidates' policy congruence with parties and voters	4
Book Review: The roots of polarization: From the racial realignment to the culture wars O’BrianNeil A, The Roots of Polarization: From the Racial Realignment to the Culture Wars. Chicago: University o	4
From party programmes to climate policy: A comparative analysis of fossil fuel subsidy reform in OECD countries	4
Internal cleavages and changing party system in indigenous politics – The Sámi Parliament of Norway	4
More than users: How political parties shape the acceptance of electoral clientelism	4
Erratum to Explaining the migrant–native vote gap under open-list proportional representation	4
Coalition government, frustrated majorities, and minority rule	4
Gender, perceptions of benefits and costs, and negative campaigning. Evidence from German candidate surveys	4
Understanding how bundles of party reforms are shaped: A snowballing sequence in the French-speaking Belgian liberal party (MR)	4
Authoritarian strange bedfellows? European radical right parties’ positions on China: An analysis of roll-call votes in the european parliament	4
Political group formation in the European parliament: Negotiating democracy and gender	4
Book Review: Tunisia and Egypt after the Arab Spring: Party Politics in Transitions from Authoritarian Rule RestaValeria, Tunisia and Egypt after the Arab Spring: Party Politics in Transitions from Au	4
Do two-party systems hamper defection from undemocratic candidates?	4
Populists in power: The limits of inclusion	4
Negative sanctions don’t work (mostly): An analysis of gender quota sanctions in Africa	4
Book Review: Fragile but Resilient? Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015	4
Perceptions of opinion poll credibility: The role of partisan bias	4
Book Review: Religious Voting in Western Democracies	4
Determined by place or party? Issue salience in local election manifestos	4
The blurred lines between center-right and far-right: “Reverse contamination” and the People’s Party’s environmentalism in Spain	4
Online election campaigning in changing political environments: A comparison of the 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections	3
Book Review: Dynamic partisanship: How and why voter loyalties change	3
Messaging both sides: Party leadership support for conflicting positions in the US House of Representatives	3
Do (strong) gender quotas make a difference? Multiple candidacies as a party gatekeeping strategy in Italy	3
An election too far: Why do MPs leave politics before an election?	3
Book Review: Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool? Success, Decline and Irrelevance since 1945 JefferyDavid. Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool? Success, Decline and Irrelevance since 1945. Liverpool:	3
Book Review: Life in the Middle: Marginalized Moderate Senators in the Era of Polarization	3
Gender affinity effects between female voters and women leaders in parliamentary elections: Cross-national evidence (1996-2016)	3
Party responsiveness over time: From left-right to issue-specific dimensions	3
Prime ministers in waiting? Women leaders of the opposition in Westminster systems	3
Partisanship, party systems, and understandings of democracy across Africa	3
Party organizational resources and election campaigns: Explaining party contacting	3
Book Review: Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics	3
Beyond populism: The diversity of thin anti-establishment contestation in turbulent times	3
The partisan foundations of parliamentary speech: How parliamentary party groups decide who gets to speak for them	3
Do new participatory rights attract more party members? Evidence from Germany	3
Supply-side dynamics of parties’ group appeals: How dominance affects the choice between symbolic and policy-based appeals	3
Book reviews: Maurizio Cotta and Frederico Russo, eds. Research Handbook on Political Representation	3
Parties’ parliamentary attack behaviour throughout the electoral cycle	3
Book reviews: Diminished parties: Democratic representation in contemporary latin America	3
Consequences of membership growth – the case of the German Green Party	3
Activating Self-Interest: The Role of Party Polarization in Preferences for Redistribution	3
Managing the grumbles: The role of intra-party dissent and leader domination on salience strategies in Western Europe	3
Book Review: Brexit Britain: The consequences of the vote to leave the European Union	3
Trading economic for security performance: Shifting voters’ agenda during 2023 Turkish elections	3
Which democracy do political parties want? The role of party personalism	3
Book review: A review of democracy without parties in peru: the politics of uncertainty and decay Sanchez-SibonyOmar. Democracy Without Parties in Peru: The Politics of Uncertainty and Decay. London,	3
The cost of compromise: How coalition participation shapes party membership	3
Generation-based position taking: Unpacking Finland’s decision to join NATO	3
Identification with an anti-system party undermines diffuse political support: The case of Alternative for Germany and trust in the Federal Constitutional Court	3
Women in leadership in the party: Women’s representation in intra-party leadership and party positions on gender equality in employment	3
Not everyone suffers equally: The effect of electoral overlap on mainstream party responses to radical right parties	3
Australia: No party convergence where we would most expect it	3
Clear commitments and signals of support: The inclusion of Finnish parties’ electoral pledges in coalition agreements	2
Promoting gender equality or co-opting feminism? Comparing actors in the European Parliament	2
Class differences in precarity and welfare priorities within Europe’s center-left coalitions	2
‘When in Rome do as the Romans do’ or ‘Rome is for Romans only’? How the search for a classification of the Finns Party could clear a way through the taxonomical jungle of the European far-right	2
Right-wing populism and territorial party competition: The case of the Alternative for Germany	2
The emerging fault line of alternative news: Intra-party division in Republican representatives’ media engagement	2
Book Review: The political dynamics of partisan polarization SchmidtEric R.CarminesEdward G.SnidermanPaul M.. The Political Dynamics of Partisan Polarization, Cambridge, New York, etc.: Cambridge Univ	2
The experience premium and women’s nomination to local elections in South Africa’s African National Congress party	2
Book Review: This is Only the Beginning: The Making of a New Left, From Anti-Austerity to the Fall of Corbyn ChessumMichael. This is Only the Beginning: The Making of a New Left, From Anti-Austerity t	2
Book Review: Cross-Party Politics in Britain, 1945-2019	2
Reduced incentives, reduced party unity: Evidence from parliamentary speeches	2
The power of party to help voters overcome a participation obstacle in the United States	2
The use of party websites for political information among Spanish party activists	2
Committee assignment patterns in fragmented multiparty settings: Party personnel practices and coalition management	2
Book Review: The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin	2

The state of populism: Introducing the 2023 wave of the Populism and political parties expert survey	2
From movement to party: Analysis of the tensions between horizontality and oligarchy in Spanish municipalist platforms (2015–2023)	2
Citizens’ awareness of electoral campaign pledges	2
Parties’ group appeals across time, countries, and communication channels—examining appeals to social groups via the Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset	2
Leaking season: An analysis of the timing of media disclosures from party insiders in Sweden 2010-2024	2
Measuring intra-party democracy on a global scale	2
Political violence and party system fragmentation in Mexico	2
Partisanship versus principles: A study of voter response to intra-party corruption allegations	2
When do parties go digital? Examining the drivers of internal and external party digitalisation	2
Disaffected partisans who want a third party are just as polarized	2
Book Review: Religion, Populism, and Modernity: Confronting White Christian nationalism and racism	2
Who rules the deliberative party? Examining the Agora case in Belgium	2
Surrogate representation by parties: A cross-national perspective	2
The worthy and the fallible: Framing the issue of state party funding	2
Issue ownership and government participation: Explaining parties’ issue attention at the subnational level	2
Book Review: Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation Matthias Dilling, Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation	2
A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform	2
Why vote for an independent? The relevance of negative identity, independent identity, and dealignment in a pro-independent political environment	2
Preaching to the choirs. Political parties’ online targeting strategies in multi-party systems	2
Let the voters decide: Incumbents, opposition, and contested primaries in Argentina	2
Party research and party support aid: Conflicting visions of how parties function?	2
Putting their money where their mouth is: The gendered dynamics of central party financial transfers to local election candidates	2
Political communication on Facebook: Do populist parties send out more posts?	2
Book review: Party system closure. Party Alliances, government alternatives, and Democracy in Europe	2
Book Review: Get In MaguirePatrickPogrundGabriel, Get In. London: Bodley Head, 2025, £25.00 (hbk), 480 pp.: ISBN: 9781847928375	2
Book Review: The House that Fox News Built? Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News ArceneauxKevinDunawayJohannaJohnsonMartinVander WielenRyan J., The House that Fox Ne	2
Electoral competitiveness and candidates’ preferences on tax increase: Evidence from Japan	2
Rationalities of conspiracy theories: A Weberian analysis of Turkish parliamentary debates	2
Restrictive rules of speechmaking as a tool to maintain party unity: The case of oppressed political conflict in German parliament debates on the euro crisis	2
Donate to help us fight back: Political fundraising and toxic rhetoric online	2
Ambiguity and vagueness in party competition	2
Opening the gates, keeping the guards: How intra-party democracy shapes Women’s access to party leadership	1
Book Review: Rationality of Irrationality: Political Determinants and Effects of Party Position Blurring	1
Anti-defection rules and party switching in the Italian Parliament	1
Environmental chauvinism? Explaining issue expansion among non-mainstream parties	1
Local political space: Localism, the left-right dimension and anti-elitism	1
In the gray zone: How representational deficit moderates the effect of openness on protest participation	1
Is there clarity in ambiguity? A literature review of party positional ambiguity	1
Book Review: Conservative party-building in Latin America: Authoritarian inheritance and counterrevolutionary struggle	1
Book review: Review of party politics and the implementation of gender quotas: Resisting Institutions	1
Corrigendum to “Common sense, populism, and reactionary politics on Twitter: An analysis of populist far-right common sense narratives between 2008 and 2022”	1
Islamic political parties and election campaigns in Indonesia	1
Book Review: Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy	1
PartySOME: A comprehensive dataset on political parties’ SOcial MEdia activity	1
Book Review: Vigilante Islamists: Religious Parties and Anti-State Violence in Pakistan JoshuaT. White. Vigilante Islamists: Religious Parties and Anti-State Violence in Pakistan. Oxford University Pr	1
Book Review: Democratic Partisanship: Party Activism in an Age of Democratic Crises HermanLise Esther. Democratic Partisanship: Party Activism in an Age of Democratic Crises. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ	1
Book Review: Elections in Latin America: Campaigns, Voters, and Institutions PallisterKevin, Elections in Latin America: Campaigns, Voters, and Institutions , Lanham, Ro	1
‘Party position, electoral incentives, and attention to European Union issues in the 2019 European Parliament election’	1
Democratic transition and party polarization: A fuzzy regression discontinuity design approach	1
Radical or aligned? Assessing issue congruence between youth wing elites, parliamentary candidates and voters in Norway	1
Digitalisation and political parties in Europe	1
Tweeting apart: Democratic backsliding, new party cleavage and changing media ownership in Turkey	1
Majority ethnonationalist ethnic riot and protest in 18 European countries: Variable levels of vote salience	1
From strategic voters to strategic options: Recasting strategic voting for multiparty simple plurality elections	1
Who cooperates with whom? The role of day-to-day partisan cooperation in affective polarization	1
How do new parties shape policymaking in coalition governments? Bill timing in the Czech Republic and Slovenia	1
Putin’s puppets in the West? The far right’s reaction to the 2022 Russian (re)invasion of Ukraine	1
State government control and partisan happiness	1
Sanitised or sterilised? A ban on donations to fully publicly funded political parties	1
What brings you to the party? Voter preferences on parties through policy and valence dynamics	1
Book Review: Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy SmithJacob F. H., Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and	1
Identity, money, or governance? Explaining secessionist parties’ rhetorical strategies	1
Party system nationalization, party centralization and legislative de/centralization in federal democracies	1
Converging to the mean? Moderating ideologies of far-right and far-left parties in government	1
What does it mean to be pro-European? The case of the European centre-left and centre-right in Austria, Germany and the UK	1
Unpacking candidate selection in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Cameroon	1
Book review: The backstage of democracy: India’s election campaigns and the people who manage them SharmaAmogh Dhar, The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Th	0
Book Review: Conservatism: The fight for a tradition	0
To join or not to join? Reasons for and barriers to political participation in a party	0
From handshakes to texts: Voter contact in the 2020 and 2022 elections	0
Book Review: The Right to Rule: Thirteen Years, Five Prime Ministers, and the Implosion of the Tories	0
Do parties still shape policies in times of crisis? The impact of financial constraints on partisan policymaking in Italy (1996–2018)	0
Partisan schism in America’s newest swing state	0
Rejecting the radical right: Local inequality and party support	0
Book Review: The Republican Evolution: From Governing Party to Antigovernment Party, 1860-2020 JandaKenneth, The Republican Evolution: From Governing Party to Antigovernment Party, 1860-2020. New York	0
Why the left has more to lose from ideological convergence than the right	0
Book Review: Radical right populism in Germany: AfD, pegida, and the identitarian movement	0
The radical left and its political communication: An examination of the campaign activities of radical left candidates in sixteen Europe countries	0
Sycophants in 280 characters: Using Twitter to measure the authoritarian sentiment of presidential advisors in Turkey	0
What’s in a name? Democrat Party as multivocal communication	0
Book Review: Envisioning America and the American self: Republican and democratic platforms	0
Book Review: Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960	0
“Dark” positivity: Do candidates with a more aversive personality use positive campaigning more often?	0
Determinants of non-partisan ministerial appointments in presidential systems: Evidence from the presidential polities of the Americas	0
Book Review: The case for the centre right	0
Extending the Laakso-Taagepera Index to integrate both party and ethnicity	0
New people, new policy: How personnel renewal in the party executive affects party policy change. The case of Austria	0
Politics remains a team sport: On the continued relevance of studying party organization	0
Book Review: Between Ideology and Politics: The Foreign Policy of Islamist Political Parties AlsabehTaghreed, Between Ideology and Politics: The Foreign Policy of Islamist Political Parties. London: I	0
Social democratic party positions on the EU: The case of Brexit	0
Within-party mobility and economic performance in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from China	0
Assessing electoral coordination: A quasi-experimental design of changes in district magnitude over time	0
From cartel to crusade: The politics of radical outbidding. Thirty years in the life of the party cartelisation thesis	0
Politicians Support (and Voters Reward) Intra-Party Reforms to Promote Transparency	0
Book Review: The Closed Partisan Mind – A New Psychology of American Polarization	0