The far right party family is the fastest-growing party family in Europe. In addition to
describing the ideological makeup of the far right party family, this review examines demand …

Scholars have paid increasing attention to democratic backsliding, yet efforts to explain this
phenomenon remain inchoate. This article seeks to place the study of democratic …

Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in
states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small …

A common causal identification strategy in political science is selection on observables. This
strategy assumes one observes a set of covariates that is, after statistical adjustment …

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THIS BOOK explores some fundamental questions about civic life by studying the regions of
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Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change
go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a …

Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or
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In recent years renewed attention has been directed to the importance of the role of
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