Party Politics

Article	Citations
The populist spiral: How populist rhetoric spreads within party systems	54
Inside the Campaign: Managing Elections in Canada	39
Socialism across the Iron Curtain. Socialist Parties in East and West and the Reconstruction of Europe after 1945	26
Two-party competition in the United States: Reversed growth trends	23
Erratum to “20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues”	22
Book review: Minority party misery: Political powerlessness and electoral disengagement	21
Party ideologies and UN debates	21
Book Review: How personalist parties destory democracy from within	21
Between cabinet membership and opposition: Commitment and responsibility of support parties	17
On time and meaningful partisanship: Stability, strength, and sway of attachment to new parties	17
Lipset and Rokkan’s missing case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset	17
Effects of electoral margins on party loyalty in the roll call votes: Evidence from the 20th National Assembly in South Korea	17
Are candidates rational when it comes to negative campaigning? Empirical evidence from three German candidate surveys	16
Avoidance and engagement: Do societal problems fuel political parties’ issue attention?	16
Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project	16
Book Review: A History of the People’s Action Party 1985-2021	15
Unionist unity? Strategic voting at Scottish parliamentary elections	15
Book Review: Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform	14
Book Review: Midterms and Mandates: Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties	13
Book Review: The Rise of Entrepreneurial Parties in European Politics	12
Book Review: Small power: How local parties shape elections	12
Book Review: When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Decline of the Right in Postcommunist Europe	12
Co-partisanship with mayors, institutional performance, and citizen trust in local governance institutions: Evidence from Tunisia	12
Lost but not blown away: How do losers of party leadership contests react?	11
Book Review: Hate speech and political violence: Far-right rhetoric from the tea party to the insurrection	11

What’s in a name? Gender equality and the European Conservatives and Reformists’ group in the European Parliament	11
Circumventing coalition oversight in multiparty governments: Bill referral to parliamentary committees in the Finnish Eduskunta	11
20 years of niche parties being ‘fundamentally different’: Party constituency versus mean voter representation on multiple issues	11
Why is progressive policy reform in Kosovo uncertain, despite the accelerated power shift to the left?	10
Mapping ethics self-regulation within political parties: Norms, oversight and enforcement	10
Book Review: The modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979-97	10
Book Review: How the Tea Party Captured the GOP: Insurgent Factions in American Politics	10
Deliberative democracy in contemporary political parties: Longitudinal evidence from Norway	9
Different shades of leadership: A comparative assessment of leaders’ traits in explaining the vote for populist radical right parties	9
Who votes for virtue? Religion and party choice in Thailand’s 2019 election	9
How green is my party? Programmatic stances towards environmental protection in Europe	9
Mapping issue salience divergence in Europe from 1945 to the present	9
Ambivalence across the globe: Investigating political ambivalence and its impact on vote switching in 52 multi-party systems	8
Survival of the social? Effects of intra-party cooperation on MP renomination	8
Party primaries and turnout: Meso-level explanations	8
Book Review: The Danish Voter: Democratic Ideals and Challenges	8
Book Review: Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change	8
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	8
Political groups over national parties: Measuring the Europeanization of the political arena through MEPs’ Twitter interactions	8
True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party	8
Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions	8
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties	8
Book review: Power shifts: Congress and presidential representation	7
Government partisans: A practical typology	7
Red vs blue hubris: Clarifying the relationship between partisanship and (anti)intellectualism	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
Book Review: Independents in Irish Party Democracy	7
It’s not only about the leader: Oligarchized personalization and preference voting in Belgium	7
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	7
Islamism, party change, and strategic conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia	6
Capitalized rallies: Why campaign costs are rising and rallies are hybridizing in Tanzania	6
The Battle of Ideas in the Labour Party: From Attlee to Corbyn and Brexit	6
Non-mainstream left parties, primaries, and women’s winning chances in leadership contests	6
What drives the intra-party democracy of the “Alternative for Germany”: Populist ideology, low institutionalisation or lack of party unity?	6
Delayed shock? How Brexit conditioned campaign effects in British general elections	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
Populist radical-right junior coalition partners and liberal democracy in Europe	6
Populists in power and conspiracy theories	6
The European NUTS-level election dataset: A tool to map European electoral geography	6
Consider your companions carefully: How voters perceive (coalition) governments’ poor valence images	6
Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies: Evidence from Latin America, 1993–2016	5
Why do party elites incentivise activism? The case of the populist radical right	5
Intertwined fates? Members switching between niche and mainstream parties	5
Local political party presence online	5
Book Review: Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe: Views From the Capitals	5
Book Review: Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government	5
Book Review: Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe KluverHeikeBackHannaKraussSvenja, Coalition Agreements as Control Devices: Coalition Governance	5
Book Review: The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand	5
Measuring party system institutionalization in democracies	5

Born out of civil wars: Are former rebel parties an organizationally distinct type of party?	5
Tales of the unexpected: Promissory representation in times of uncertainty and economic downturn	5
Candidate visibility, voter knowledge, and the incumbency advantage in preferential-list PR	5
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	5
Why do voters vote for third parties in single member districts? A test of four strategic voting conditions	5
Liberalism and illiberalism in Myanmar’s National League for Democracy	5
Understanding how bundles of party reforms are shaped: A snowballing sequence in the French-speaking Belgian liberal party (MR)	4
Book Review: The Inter- and Transnational Politics of Populism: Foreign Policy, Identity and Popular Sovereignty	4
Book Review: Religious Voting in Western Democracies	4
Reluctant cooptation: The legislative recruitment of the private sector into Russia’s dominant party, 2015–2020	4
Authoritarian strange bedfellows? European radical right parties’ positions on China: An analysis of roll-call votes in the european parliament	4
Book Review: Fragile but Resilient? Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015	4
Gendered dynamics in representation: Examining candidates' policy congruence with parties and voters	4
Perceptions of opinion poll credibility: The role of partisan bias	4
Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States	4
The influence of Eurosceptic challenger parties on mainstream party behaviour: Is oppositional behaviour contagious?	4
The strategic ambiguity of the radical right: A study of the Danish People’s Party	4
Coalition government, frustrated majorities, and minority rule	4
‘Void’ democrats? The populist notion of ‘democracy’ in action	4
Does it matter who is in charge? Ministerial characteristics and pledge fulfilment	4
The party system effects of unstable electoral rules in Latin America	4
How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns?	4
Do new participatory rights attract more party members? Evidence from Germany	4
Book Review: Inequality After the Transition: Political Parties, Party Systems, and Social Policy in Southern and Postcommunist Europe	4
How non-radical right parties strategically use nativist language: Evidence from an automated content analysis of Austrian, German, and Swiss election manifestos	4
More than users: How political parties shape the acceptance of electoral clientelism	4
The relationship between local councillors’ representative style and their support for participatory democracy	4
Negative sanctions don’t work (mostly): An analysis of gender quota sanctions in Africa	4
Political donations and the gender gap during COVID-19	4
Multi-level legislative representation in an inchoate party system: Mass-elite ideological congruence in Brazil	4
Book review: A review of democracy without parties in peru: the politics of uncertainty and decay	3
Erratum to Explaining the migrant–native vote gap under open-list proportional representation	3
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	3
Local preferences in candidate selection: Evidence from a conjoint experiment among party leaders in Germany	3
Party statutes and party institutionalization	3
Book Review: Lost on Division: Party Unity in the Canadian Parliament, Toronto	3
Attracting tomorrow’s leaders: Who joins political youth organisations for material reasons?	3
Do two-party systems hamper defection from undemocratic candidates?	3
Political Parties Abroad: A New Arena For Party Politics	3
Online election campaigning in changing political environments: A comparison of the 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections	3
The blurred lines between center-right and far-right: “Reverse contamination” and the People’s Party’s environmentalism in Spain	3
Political group formation in the European parliament: Negotiating democracy and gender	3
Beyond populism: The diversity of thin anti-establishment contestation in turbulent times	3
Book Review: Dynamic partisanship: How and why voter loyalties change	3
Opposition fragmentation facilitates electoral accountability: Evidence from a survey experiment	3
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	3
Internal cleavages and changing party system in indigenous politics – The Sámi Parliament of Norway	3
Messaging both sides: Party leadership support for conflicting positions in the US House	3
The partisan foundations of parliamentary speech: How parliamentary party groups decide who gets to speak for them	3
Do (strong) gender quotas make a difference? Multiple candidacies as a party gatekeeping strategy in Italy	3
Book Review: Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics	3
Book Review: Brexit Britain: The consequences of the vote to leave the European Union	3
Partisanship versus principles: A study of voter response to intra-party corruption allegations	2
Book reviews: Diminished parties: Democratic representation in contemporary latin America	2
Clear commitments and signals of support: The inclusion of Finnish parties’ electoral pledges in coalition agreements	2
Identification with an anti-system party undermines diffuse political support: The case of Alternative for Germany and trust in the Federal Constitutional Court	2
Book Review: Life in the Middle: Marginalized Moderate Senators in the Era of Polarization	2
Not everyone suffers equally: The effect of electoral overlap on mainstream party responses to radical right parties	2
Book review: Party system closure. Party Alliances, government alternatives, and Democracy in Europe	2
Women in leadership in the party: Women’s representation in intra-party leadership and party positions on gender equality in employment	2
An election too far: Why do MPs leave politics before an election?	2
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:	2
Party Mandates and Democracy: Making, Breaking, and Keeping Election Pledges in Twelve Countries	2
Book reviews: Maurizio Cotta and Frederico Russo, eds. Research Handbook on Political Representation	2
From movement to party: Analysis of the tensions between horizontality and oligarchy in Spanish municipalist platforms (2015–2023)	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
The impact of party-constituent relationships on executive and legislative influence over policymaking	2
Managing the grumbles: The role of intra-party dissent and leader domination on salience strategies in Western Europe	2
Committee assignment patterns in fragmented multiparty settings: Party personnel practices and coalition management	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
The effect of the ballot in an unranked ballot system	2
Parties’ parliamentary attack behaviour throughout the electoral cycle	2
The state of populism: Introducing the 2023 wave of the Populism and political parties expert survey	2
Supply-side dynamics of parties’ group appeals: How dominance affects the choice between symbolic and policy-based appeals	2
Australia: No party convergence where we would most expect it	2
Activating Self-Interest: The Role of Party Polarization in Preferences for Redistribution	2
Citizens’ awareness of electoral campaign pledges	2
Party regulation in Latin America: A change of normative paradigms	2
The emerging fault line of alternative news: Intra-party division in Republican representatives’ media engagement	2
The worthy and the fallible: Framing the issue of state party funding	2

Measuring intra-party democracy on a global scale	2
The use of party websites for political information among Spanish party activists	2
Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction	2
Parties’ group appeals across time, countries, and communication channels—examining appeals to social groups via the Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset	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
Gender affinity effects between female voters and women leaders in parliamentary elections: Cross-national evidence (1996-2016)	2
Issue ownership and government participation. Explaining parties’ issue attention at the subnational level	2
Consequences of membership growth – the case of the German Green Party	2
Prime ministers in waiting? Women leaders of the opposition in Westminster systems	2
Generation-based position taking: Unpacking Finland’s decision to join NATO	2
Party responsiveness over time: From left-right to issue-specific dimensions	2
Donate to help us fight back: Political fundraising and toxic rhetoric online	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
When do parties go digital? Examining the drivers of internal and external party digitalisation	2
Putting their money where their mouth is: The gendered dynamics of central party financial transfers to local election candidates	2
Book Review: Preferential Voting Systems: Influence on Intra-Party Competition and Voting Behaviour	2
Ambiguity and vagueness in party competition	1
Unpacking candidate selection in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Cameroon	1
The power of party to help voters overcome a participation obstacle in the United States	1
Environmental chauvinism? Explaining issue expansion among non-mainstream parties	1
Book Review: The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin	1
The American Right After Reagan	1
Political violence and party system fragmentation in Mexico	1
Is there clarity in ambiguity? A literature review of party positional ambiguity	1
Right-wing populism and territorial party competition: The case of the Alternative for Germany	1
Who rules the deliberative party? Examining the Agora case in Belgium	1
Membership and participation in independent local parties: Patterns and explanations	1
Local political space: Localism, the left-right dimension and anti-elitism	1
Radical or aligned? Assessing issue congruence between youth wing elites, parliamentary candidates and voters in Norway	1
The experience premium and women’s nomination to local elections in South Africa’s African National Congress party	1
Who cooperates with whom? The role of day-to-day partisan cooperation in affective polarization	1
Book Review: Get In MaguirePatrickPogrundGabriel, Get In. London: Bodley Head, 2025, £25.00 (hbk), 480 pp.: ISBN: 9781847928375	1
Party system nationalization, party centralization and legislative de/centralization in federal democracies	1
How stable are ‘left’ and ‘right’? A morphological analysis using open-ended survey responses of parliamentary candidates	1
Political communication on Facebook: Do populist parties send out more posts?	1
Book Review: Learning from Loss: The Democrats 2016–2020	1
Alternative legacies of authoritarianism: Pro-dictator bias in ideology	1
Let the voters decide: Incumbents, opposition, and contested primaries in Argentina	1
The partisan consequences of liberation mentality: Ruling party support in Zimbabwe across space and time	1
Surrogate representation by parties: A cross-national perspective	1
Book Review: Elections in Latin America: Campaigns, Voters, and Institutions PallisterKevin, Elections in Latin America: Campaigns, Voters, and Institutions , Lanham, Ro	1
What explains party unity? A test of competing theories	1
Book Review: Stranger in a Strange State: The Politics of Carpetbagging from Robert Kennedy to Scott Brown	1
Rationalities of conspiracy theories: A Weberian analysis of Turkish parliamentary debates	1
Identity, money, or governance? Explaining secessionist parties’ rhetorical strategies	1
Introducing the party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets	1
‘Party position, electoral incentives, and attention to European Union issues in the 2019 European Parliament election’	1
Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism in a Turbulent Age	1
Book Review: Cross-Party Politics in Britain, 1945-2019	1
Islamic political parties and election campaigns in Indonesia	1
Perpetual scrutiny? Mutual control among coalition political parties in the executive and parliamentary phases of law-making	1
Opening the gates, keeping the guards: How intra-party democracy shapes Women’s access to party leadership	1
Converging to the mean? Moderating ideologies of far-right and far-left parties in government	1
What brings you to the party? Voter preferences on parties through policy and valence dynamics	1
Putin’s puppets in the West? The far right’s reaction to the 2022 Russian (re)invasion of Ukraine	1
The Long War over Party Structure	1
In the gray zone: How representational deficit moderates the effect of openness on protest participation	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
Disaffected partisans who want a third party are just as polarized	1
Book Review: Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation Matthias Dilling, Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation	1
Digitalisation and political parties in Europe	1
Is populism popular abroad? Evidence from diasporas around the globe	1
Anti-defection rules and party switching in the Italian Parliament	1
The New Party Challenge	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
Class differences in precarity and welfare priorities within Europe’s center-left coalitions	1
Book review: The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy	1
Inside the Mind of a Voter: A New Approach to Electoral Psychology	1
Book Review: Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy	1
International populism: The radical right in the European Parliament	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
Book Review: Religion, Populism, and Modernity: Confronting White Christian nationalism and racism	1
State government control and partisan happiness	1
Tweeting apart: Democratic backsliding, new party cleavage and changing media ownership in Turkey	1
Electoral competitiveness and candidates’ preferences on tax increase: Evidence from Japan	1
Book Review: Rationality of Irrationality: Political Determinants and Effects of Party Position Blurring	1
Democratic transition and party polarization: A fuzzy regression discontinuity design approach	1