A large and growing body of research draws attention to the rising salience of socio‐cultural
and identitarian issues and, potentially, the emergence of a new political cleavage that …

Support for Ukraine against Russian aggression has been strong across Europe, but it is far
from uniform. An expert survey of the positions taken by political parties in 29 countries …

Concerns over affective polarization in Western democracies are growing. But which
broader political distinctions are also affective demarcations? As inter-party cooperation is …

Due to the widespread use of large language models (LLMs), we need to understand
whether they embed a specific “worldview” and what these views reflect. Recent studies …

Governments need to make choices over distributing resources and managing
socioeconomic change, which can have geographically uneven effects. This may give rise to …

ABSTRACT Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) is the new rising star of Italian politics. Scholars and pundits
briskly categorised it as a (new) populist radical right (PRR) party. Still, FdI's newness needs …

Using a novel regional database covering over 200 elections in several European countries,
this paper provides new empirical evidence on the political consequences of fiscal …

Education is perhaps the most generally used independent variable in the fields of public
opinion and vote choice. Yet the extent to which a person is educated is just one way in …

In January 2023, massive protests erupted in Israel against the right-wing government's
proposed reforms to restructure the country's democracy--reforms that mirror the types of …

While in recent times many regions have flourished, many others are stuck—or are at risk of
becoming stuck—in a development trap. Such regions experience decline in economic …