Many policy issues concern not only how we allocate societal resources today, but also how we distribute between present and future. Relations with younger family members could expand the time hori...

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

Group identities and party competition

This research examines the programmatic transformations of the far right in Western Europe through two hypothesized mechanisms: the diversification of their age...

How generational replacement feeds the urban-rural divide: Evidence from Switzerland (1995–2023)

A growing bulk of research examines intergenerational shifts in attitudes and the extent to which they are attributable to new cohorts of voters being socialised under different socioeconomic and cult...

What should the left do strategically to retain workers' vote? This paper provides extensive empirical evidence on the relationship between left parti…

Recent studies in the United States and Europe have documented a growing divergence in voting behaviour and political attitudes between cities and the countrysi...

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How do voters respond to economic crises: Do they turn against the incumbent, reward a certain political camp, polarize to the extremes, or perhaps continue to vote much like before? Analyzing extens....

For decades, political scientists have struggled to provide empirical evidence that lobbying influences policymaking. A considerable gap arose between widespread public suspicions of lobbying and the ...

With a woman as head of German government for 16 years, many hoped (or feared) for significant progress in the areas of gender equality. Rather than progress, however, contributors have noticed a r...

This study challenges the conventional conceptualisation of political space in European countries as a two-dimensional socio-economic and socio-cultural structure. Utilising data from the 2024 Euro...

A burgeoning literature suggests that the loss of autonomy of national representatives induced by supranational integration – i.e. European integration and globalization, ultimately depresses turno...

Taking stock of the 2024 European elections in the 27 Member States

Why do age differences matter for voting in some countries and not in others? Despite the prevailing narrative that a ‘youthquake’ in voting is occurring across...

Bilan des élections européennes de 2024 dans les 27 États membres