A decade ago, leading scholars suggested that the 'extended'and 'planetary'form
contemporary urbanisation has taken blurred demarcations of urban and rural and rendered …

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 …

Two principal strands of scholarship analyse the material roots of European Union (EU)
discontent. Some focus on the effects of regional decline, while others examine the role of …

Political and media polarization has had a detrimental impact on democratic principles and
democratic processes on a global scale. In Europe, such polarization has eroded the trust in …

Divisive politicisation of inequalities among the member states in the EU is the lowest in
member states where one would expect the highest level of domestic demand for it, and it is …

Differences in the response-scale formats constitute a major challenge for ex-post
harmonisation of survey data. Linear stretching of original response options onto a common …

This article explores how perceptions of democracy, both at the domestic and European
levels, influence public attitudes towards the EU through empirical tests conducted at both …

This paper focuses on analyzing European identification through the exploration of
generational differences. The idea that young people are more pro-European than older …

The 'exceptionalism'of Spain's lack of far-right populism has come to an end with VOX. This
has spurred a debate that has converged upon another exceptionalism, that of Catalan …

The 2008 economic crisis brought new scholarly attention to Southern European radical left
parties (SERLPs). Yet, important aspects of these parties remain empirically unexplored …