Explaining Party Support in the 2016 Russian State Duma Election

Putting the Party Back In: Explaining EU Member State Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, 1998-2003

Why do some countries comply with their treaty obligations, even when those obligations impose a heavy political burden? Past analyses have shown domestic politics plays an important role. Downs et al (1996) and Von Stein (2005) argue that countries most readily enter into treaties when they would comply with the obligations anyway. Furthermore, Pahre and Papayanou (1997) and Dai (2005, 2006) p...

Russian Election Reform and the Effect of Social Conformity on Voting and the Party System : 2007 and 2008

Explaining Party Positions on Decentralization

Debates about decentralization raise cultural questions of identity and economic questions of redistribution and efficiency. Therefore the preferences of statewide parties regarding decentralization are related to their positions on the economic and cultural ideological dimensions. A statistical analysis using data from thirty-one countries confirms this: parties on the economic right are more ...

Election issues , political party performance and geography

Introduction Voters make decisions on whether to vote and who to vote for in places. Places are crucial because they not only provide the context for interaction and social identification but they are the containers in which parties operate and seek representation by socialising and mobilising voters to support them. Longstanding theories of party choice stress how such places provide the space...

Explaining support for the UK Independence Party at the 2009 European Parliament elections

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) achieved its best result in the 2009 European elections, beating the governing Labour Party into second place. Despite its recent success we still know relatively little about who votes for the party and how these supporters compare with those of UKIP’s competitors. This paper analyses support for UKIP at the 2009 European elections first at the aggregate level,...