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

In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million
individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes …

This Article offers the first empirical account of the global evolution of rights constitutionalism.
Our analysis of an original data set that spans the rights-related content of all national …

Measuring the preferences of political elites is critically important for analyzing the
determinants and consequences of elite behavior. The decisions that elites make when …

Legislatures are the core representative institutions in modern democracies. Citizens want
legislatures to be decisive, and they want accountability, but they are frequently disillusioned …

Gender differences regarding the perception of and behaviour toward environmental
problems are well documented: across countries, women express higher concern about the …

We investigate the dimensionality of politics in the European Parliament by applying a
scaling method to all roll‐call votes between 1979 and 2001 in the European Parliament …

In parliament, populist parties express their positions almost every day through voting. There
is great diversity among them, for instance between left-wing and right-wing populist parties …

Following on the sustained success of the acclaimed European Union Series, which
essentially publishes research-based textbooks, Palgrave Studies in European Union …

With recent advances in computing power and the widespread availability of preference,
perception and choice data, such as public opinion surveys and legislative voting, the …