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(Inequality in) Interest Group Involvement and the Legitimacy of Policy Making - Volume 53 Issue 1

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Unequal treatment perceptions and rural backlashes against carbon taxation

A strong link between citizen preferences and public policy is one of the key goals and criteria of democratic governance. Yet, our knowledge about the extent to which public policies on specific iss...

Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues

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Drawing on survey data from 30 countries, Bor et al. find that online political hostility is higher in more unequal and less democratic societies.

More social, less material, more influenced by family ties: Why young women join political parties

In new research, Alexander Furnas, Timothy LaPira, and Clare Brock find that most politically active organizations engage in either campaign contributions or lobbying, but rarely both.The findings hav...

Stein Rokkan Prize | European Consortium for Political Research

Catherine de Vries groeide op op een boerderij in Overijssel die al generaties in de familie was. Eind jaren tachtig veranderde dat leven ingrijpend: dalende prijzen, Europese regels en terughoudende ...

Political participation is considered an important path for people to influence politics. However, whether those who participate actually see more of their preferred policies implemented remains an op...

A TikTok outage more likely explains recent anomalies – there’s no evidence of larger platform changes so far.

Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment - Volume 65 Issue 1

This paper investigates the timing of interest groups’ negative agenda-setting efforts. Some organizations lobby proactively to prevent their ‘nightmare’ issues from reaching the formal policy agen...

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