This book has three aims. Firstly, it explores the extreme right in order to assess its
ideological meaning and its political expression. Beginning with a discussion of the meaning …

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This book is an updated version of my 2009 Habilitation treatise at the Otto von Guericke
University of Magdeburg, Germany. When I started working on the project some ten years …

In this concluding comparative chapter I will try to answer some of the questions launched in
the introductory chapters of Huri Türsan and Ferdinand MüllerRommel. We will basically …

This article addresses the evolution of the Belgian polity from its unitary and stable period up
until the mid-1960s to the present situation of high fragmentation of the party system and …

Class Voting in Western Europe provides a rare, systematic, longitudinal, and cross-national
study of social class and party choice in eight Western European, democratic countries …

Although referendums have been used for centuries to settle ethnonational conflicts, there
had yet been no systematic study or generalized theory concerning their effectiveness until …

Parliamentary party groups are central actors in most European democracies. This volume
analyses the manifestations and operations of these actors across thirteen different …

In this article, the impact of religious denomination on party choice is studied in eight
western European countries from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. The research problems …

This study is a comparative analysis of the relationship between social structure and party
choice in eight West European countries. Oddbjørn Knutsen analyzes the comparative …