Maurice Duverger in 1980 advanced the concept of a 'semi-presidential'regime: a mix of a
popularly elected and powerful presidency with a prime minister heading a cabinet subject …

In democracies, power is obtained via competition. Yet, as women gain access to
parliaments in record numbers, worldwide collaboration appears to be on the rise. This is …

In parliamentary democracies, elections distribute the seats in parliament, but who gets into
government and determines the policy agenda over the course of the legislative term is …

A new and wide-ranging empirical overview of party policy in 47 modern democracies,
including all of the new democracies of Eastern Europe. It updates and radically extends …

With the European Parliament comprising politicians from many different countries, cultures,
languages, national parties and institutional backgrounds, one might expect politics in the …

Existing approaches to measuring political disagreement from text data perform poorly
except when applied to narrowly selected texts discussing the same issues and written in …

Interest in sociał stereoty** has been one of the constants in modern social psychology, a
discipline which can seem somewhat “faddish” at times (Fiske and Leyens, 1997). There has …

Scholars of post-communist politics often argue that parties in new democracies lack strong
organizations-sizable membership, local presence, and professional management-because …

This article investigates the recent government participation of a number of radical right-wing
populist parties in West European democracies. With the help of coalition formation theories …

How do presidents win legislative support under conditions of extreme multipartism?
Comparative presidential research has offered two parallel answers, one relying on …