This is a comprehensive study of the 2015 general election in Britain designed not only for
students and scholars of British politics, but also for the interested reader. It looks at the …

This paper describes a range of methods which have been proposed to study interactions in
economic and social contexts. By interactions, we refer to interdependences between …

What are the political effects of rising radical right-wing parties (RRPs) in Western Europe?
Does the rise of the parties drive mainstream parties (MPs) to become more restrictive on …

Despite the centrality of the median voter prediction in political economy models,
overwhelming empirical evidence shows that legislators regularly take positions that diverge …

▪ Abstract Although Herbert Simon's work is often cited by political scientists, it has not
generated a large research program in the discipline. This is a waste of a major intellectual …

Political parties in established democracies face a trade-off between changing their policy
positions in pursuit of votes and adhering to their previous positions in order to reduce risks …

This paper proposes a model that takes the dynamic agent-based analysis of policy-driven
party competition into a multiparty environment. In this, voters continually review party …

This article examines applications of complexity theory within the behavioral and social
sciences. Specific attention is given to the fundamental characteristics of complex adaptive …

At present much of political science consists of a large body of formal mathematical work that
remains largely unexplored empirically and an expanding use of sophisticated statistical …

The authors examine the relationship between the variation of policy choices on offer in a
party system and citizen satisfaction. Cross-national analyses, based on 12 countries from …