The article analyses the consequences of elite polarisation at the mass level. We study the
electoral re-alignment within the right-wing Spanish electorate in recent years, whereby …

Research has documented increasing partisan division and extremist positions that are
more pronounced among political elites than among voters. Attention has now begun to …

Should turning out to vote in mass elections be voluntary or compulsory? Previous
normative arguments for compulsory voting often rely on contested normative claims about …

This paper aims to conduct a systematic and critical review of contemporary literature on
processes of polarisation, the role they are perceived as playing in creating a matrix of …

Numerous studies conclude that declining turnout is harmful for democracy. However, we
uncover the arguably positive effect that political parties become more responsive to the …

Political parties as unique political organizations struggle with diverse challenges in digital
times. Digital transformation requires them to rethink and adjust their internal organization …

Do the policy preferences expressed through political participation represent the citizens as
a whole? Previous studies argue that there is no ideological bias in voting participation in …

There are several opinion dynamics models where extremism is defined as part of their
characteristics. However, the way extremism is implemented in each model does not …

Some interest groups have policy positions on one or more policy dimensions in partisan
policy space while others do not. In this paper we examine explanations for differences in …

Traditional models of opinion dynamics provide a simplified approach to understanding
human behavior in basic social scenarios. However, when it comes to issues such as …