How do polls influence strategic voting under proportional representation? This paper derives a strategic calculus of voting for coalitions that generates testable predictions about the effects of polls on strategic voting in elections involving four or more parties. Incentives of leftist voters to vote for a centrist over a noncentrist party are shown to increase with the difference in expecte...

We extend the ‘citizen candidate’ model of party formation to allow for aggregate uncertainty over the distribution of preferences. We discuss and characterize the equilibrium set in this framework and show that two-party equilibria have ‘extremist’ parties, i.e. the party winning under a left-wing (right-wing) distribution is to the left (right) of the median of that distribution.

Cultural heritage is increasingly used as a political force to achieve societal goals. This specifically noticeable in the rhetoric of right-wing nationalist parties Europe. and ‘politics past’ have become key tools explicit agendas politicians are using cultural attract disenchanted voters. But how constructed through these processes? The aim this paper explore constructions uses within Swedis...

There is compelling evidence that globalization shocks, often working through culture and identity, have played an important role in driving up support for populist movements, particularly of the right-wing kind. I start with empirical analysis 2016 presidential election United States to show globalization-related attitudinal variables were correlates switch Trump. then provide a conceptual fra...

With this introduction to the special issue on climate politics, democracy, and populism, we lay ground for multiplicity of analyses that follow. We highlight essentially contested nature concepts like (de-)politicization, democracy reject notion a single definition. do so by outlining what post-, de-, re-politicization can mean, how diverse perspectives populism are, which ones help guide us i...