This interdisciplinary Research Agenda contains state-of-the-art surveys of the field of
corruption and points towards an agenda for future research. This comprehensive work …

Primary elections for choosing party leaders and candidates are now becoming
commonplace in Europe, Asia and America but questions as to how much they hinder a …

A paradox in the comparative literature on electoral systems is that one of the most common
systems in Europe–flexible-list proportional representation systems–may be the least …

Populist parties, particularly from the right of the political spectrum, have sharply increased
their electoral support in recent years, creating great media and scholarly interest. In this …

A handful of recent studies have investigated the causal effect of incumbency on dynasty
formation in candidate-centered electoral contexts. We use candidate-level data and a …

Finland's modern, technologically advanced welfare state is, in fact, a fairly recent creation,
because the social changes that led to it occurred in Finland much later than elsewhere in …

The Michigan model, named after the institution where it was first articulated, has been used
to explain voting behavior in North American and Western European democracies. In Latin …

After a period in which affective polarization—defined here as the difference between
positive feelings toward in‐parties and negative out‐party animus—has mostly focused on …

Individualization theorists claim that the socio-cultural changes of late modernity have
dissolved class division and awareness. In contrast, this review of class research on …

Election campaigns are more than simple competitions for votes; they also represent an
opportunity for voters to become politically knowledgeable and engaged. Using a large …