The paper deals with the ideological position of a newly formed business-firm party called
ANO in the contemporary political environment of the Czech Republic. Although the advent …

Moral attitudes justifying economic inequality are often embedded within conservative
religion and politics in the United States, even as traditional Christian values assert the need …

What happens to cabinet governance if parties do not act as 'unitary actors'? In this paper, I
examine the consequences of intra-party dissent for coalition governments in parliamentary …

This paper explores the issue salience of social welfare for disabled people in electoral
politics with reference to party manifestos in Westminster and regional elections in the UK …

This study uses mixed methods to explore the issue salience and policy framing of animal
welfare in UK state-wide parties' Westminster election manifestos and parliamentary Early …

Research Highlights and Abstract This article Responds to recent calls for a more holistic
approach to studying the substantive representation of women (SRW). Specifically, it …

Political microtargeting has been depicted as a severe danger for democratic
representation. It is said to fragment the electorate, help manipulate voters, and make …

Das auf der Salienztheorie aufbauende Konzept des Issue-Ownerships (Budge/Farlie 1983;
Petrocik 1996) geht davon aus, dass Parteien in bestimmten Themen über einen …

This article transfers the concept of competitive advantage from management theory to party
competition. Competitive advantage as a party's ability to sustainably outrival any competitor …

Downs's (1957) analysis of political ideologies by means of a spatial analogy suggests that
parties' efforts to attract votes lead them to adopt a median position. In this study, we …