What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR? How has it
reacted, reformed, even revived? This new volume is one of the first to provide an overview …

European radical left parties (RLPs) are gradually receiving greater attention. Yet, to date,
what has received insufficient focus is why such parties have maintained residues of …

A standard conclusion of theorists who model bargaining as a non-cooperative game is that
the party designated to make the first move—the formateur party—will determine the …

In theory, lower-level governments (provinces, regional governments, or member states)
operating in multilevel systems within and beyond the nation-state can choose from a wide …

This study considers whether and to what extent defections from a government coalition are
punished. The study employs data on coalitions in eastern and western Europe from 1950 …

This article investigates different dynamics in government formation in 16 Western and 10
Central-Eastern European democracies during the post-war period. The study provides the …

Зроблено порівняльний аналіз основних політичних інститутів 16 країн Західної Європи
після Другої світової війни. Досліджено спільні тенденції та національні особливості …

This article employs growth curve models on four wave panel data to analyze the effects of
elections on political support. Our analyses confirm that elections temporarily boost political …

The stability of voters' partisan choices from election to election is a key feature of
democratic politics, but why it varies across advanced industrial democracies and elections …

Chief executives in many parliamentary democracies have the power to dissolve the
legislature. Despite a well‐developed literature on the endogenous timing of parliamentary …