This chapter critically engages with the prevailing conceptions of local elections as mere
lower rank elections or simply a different kind of election in contrast to national elections …

This paper examines why the support of independent local parties has grown substantially
in the Netherlands. These are parties that run in municipal council elections, but do not run …

In th is paper we investigate the effect of political sophistication on turnout and whether this
effect differs in second-order national elections. Political sophistication is thought to …

In Nederland worden elke vier jaar gelijktijdig verkiezingen gehouden voor de provinciale
staten en de waterschappen. Diverse nationale partijen nemen deel aan beide …

De term 'tweedeordeverkiezing'geeft aan dat sommige verkiezingen van minder groot
belang zijn voor burgers dan nationale verkiezingen. Dit artikel gaat na in hoeverre dat geldt …

Local governments in Europe are representative democracies (leaving aside rare
exceptions of direct democracy exercised at the local level), and a defining feature of such …

Local elections take place in “small-scale democracies” and frequently depart from the
expectations of the second-order elections model. The chapter discusses the approaches to …

ABSTRACT Both the Netherlands and Belgium have seen growing fragmentation in their
municipal and provincial councils. This paper investigates the development of this …

This article investigates to what extent national and/or local factors influence the
performance of national parties in the most recent Flemish and Dutch municipal elections of …

Zowel in Nederland als in het buitenland komen steeds meer politieke bewegingen op met
'populistische'of 'anti-establishment'kenmerken. Zij claimen te weten wat het 'gewone …