This article expands our current knowledge about ministerial selection in coalition
governments and analyses why ministerial candidates succeed in acquiring a cabinet …

National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections
at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional …

Whereas many advanced democracies have a long-standing tradition of collaboration
between parties and interest groups, it is still contested what drives such collaboration …

What explains the type of electoral campaign run by political parties? We provide a new
perspective on campaigns that focuses on the strategic use of emotive language. We argue …

Recent studies document that voters infer parties' left‐right policy agreement based on
governing coalition arrangements. This article extends this research to present theoretical …

Electoral rules play an important role in determining citizen-elite ideological congruence.
This is because they influence each stage of the representation process as one moves from …

We present a theory that links variation in aggregate levels of political knowledge across
countries and over time to corresponding differences in the political context in which voters …

Why do some government formation periods end after a few days, while others last for
several weeks or even months? Despite the rich literature on government formation …

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 …

In recent years, a consensus has developed that the conditional logit (CL) model is the most
appropriate strategy for modeling government choice. In this paper, we reconsider this …