Research suggests that when RLPs enter national government their linkages tend to weaken because policy compromise is followed by movement demobilisation, and as the party in public office gains influ...

The concept of ‘movement party’ has become influential in bridging research on political parties and social movements, yet it remains under-theorised and unevenly operationalised, particularly in the ...

The EU and the US have emerged as central actors in the governance of the digital economy. Existing scholarship tends to view their digital governance models as distinctive approaches, with the EU adv...

This paper examines how EU gender equality norm diffusion, conservative counter-mobilization, and multidimensional gender-role attitudes shape gender gaps in protest participation across Europe and ne...

After receding from the headlines for a long time, the Single Market has returned to the forefront of the European Union agenda. The project to pursue the “four freedoms” of goods, services, labor and...

What motivates people to hold liberal or conservative policy preferences? Following an interactive interpretation of the dual process model of ideology, we examine how Europeans’ value-based predispos...

Promoting issues close to the agenda of radical left parties (RLPs), progressive social movements (PSMs) have mobilised a new generation of activists in many European democracies in recent years. This...

Women in politics are targets of harassment, intimidation, and abuse. Violence affects women in all aspects of their life and parliaments are not immune to this problem. Beyond individual suffering, g...

Where US and EU competition regimes have common roots in the fight against robber barons and authoritarian regimes, they may be argued to have far more in common than is generally imagined within a do...

Non-majoritarian institutions like independent agencies and central banks play a significant role in market governance in the EU, the U.S., and everywhere. For many scholars, however, delegation to no...

This article explores the national role conceptions (NRCs) and underlying sources that Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia adopt in their foreign pol...

What do the different free movement and citizenship regimes of the U.S. and the EU reveal about their political projects and the nature of their polities? Proponents of European integration see free m...

This study examines the relationship between subjective general health and institutional political participation, with a focus on the mediating mechanisms and age-related heterogeneity in this associa...

There is often a disconnect between the EU and US single markets, as the US is often touted as a model for the EU to emulate. While the political achievement of the European single market reflects a d...

The Victory Party (ZP), established by Ümit Özdağ in 2021, and the Party for Freedom (PVV), led by Geert Wilders since 2006, are both classified as far-right parties. Each has prioritized opposition t...

Recent research suggests that long-term determinants of vote choice have weakened, while short-term considerations have become increasingly influential, contributing to rising electoral volatility. Bu...

Recent research suggests that long-term determinants of vote choice have weakened, while short-term considerations have become increasingly influential, contributing to rising electoral volatility. Bu...

It has been argued that small, new, and protest parties should overperform in European Parliament elections (EPEs). However, ongoing transformations of European party systems call for a revaluation an...

The paper aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on the transformation and mainstreaming of new, particularly anti-establishment, parties as they enter the system and assume governmental positions. ...

This article analyzes the trajectory of the Pirate Party of Luxembourg from its founding in 2009 and its electoral breakthrough in a traditionally stable system, up to the internal crisis that occurre...

Liberal democracy in the European Union faces significant challenges as its core pillars are increasingly contested, eroded, or dismantled. Against this backdrop, this special issue addresses the foll...

Right wing populist voters are characterized by high levels of anger, according to previous work. In this paper, we explore the emotional dimensions of electoral behavior with an eye toward improving ...

After their initial successes in second-order elections, Pirate parties in Sweden, Germany, and the Czech Republic followed divergent trajectories, with only the Czech Pirates successfully leveraging ...

Pirate parties have been part of the European political landscape for twenty years; yet, their trajectories differ markedly, and only a few of them have ...

Pirate parties have been part of the European political landscape for twenty years; yet, their trajectories differ markedly, and only a few of them have ...

What is the impact of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU on British policies, polity and politics and their future trajectories? This question has been overlooked so far, as many observers have focused o...

The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of analysis in European studies. Part of...

This article assesses how the EU’s trade policy has adapted to the recent injection of geopolitics into trade policy by China, Russia, and the USA. It uses major unanticipated shocks since the creatio...

This Special Issue examines how democracy is being redefined and contested across the European Union. Moving beyond narratives of democratic backsliding, it ...

This article assesses how the EU’s trade policy has adapted to the recent injection of geopolitics into trade policy by China, Russia, and the USA. It uses major unanticipated shocks since the creatio...

Comparative European Politics - The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of...

Comparative European Politics - This analysis focuses on two main topics: What is the current state of Energy Community (EC) regulation in the Member States, in particular concerning cooperation...

This Special Issue examines how democracy is being redefined and contested across the European Union. Moving beyond narratives of democratic backsliding, it ...

Although the nature and definition of populism are a source of considerable disagreement, there seems to be a minimal consensus by now that populism poses a number of threats to liberal democracy, and...

How do voters’ and political parties’ characteristics on populism affect voters’ estimations of political parties’ left/right ideologies? Following the theories of cognitive projection in social psych...

Competitiveness, a crucial factor determining the trade capabilities of national economies, becomes increasingly significant as the global economy evolves towards greater integration. This research co...