What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have
in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of …

Political parties have been studied as organizations for more than a century. Over time the
focus of party research has shifted, from normative concerns with organizational democracy …

The scholarship on the far right has often interpreted nativist organizations as straddling the
conceptual space between party and movement. These groups contest elections in order to …

Research on political parties and foreign policy has grown in recent years in response to
disciplinary and real-world changes. But party research still bears the imprint of earlier …

Every country, every subnational government, and every district has a designated
population, and this has a bearing on politics in ways most citizens and policymakers are …

Democracies in general and political parties in particular have undergone political
personalization in recent decades. The power balance between politicians (one or many) …

The personalization of politics has been extensively studied from different angles and in
different national contexts. Nonetheless, an easily comparable and longitudinal study of the …

The book provides a comprehensive view on the internal life of parties and investigates the
dynamics of intra-party politics in different party environments to explain in which …

Political parties share a very bad reputation in most European countries. This paper
provides an interpretation of this sentiment, reconstructing the downfall of the esteem in …

A landmark finding in recent research on party competition is that parties differ in how they
react to public opinion shifts. 1 In their influential study, Adams et al. 2 find that niche parties …