In the last years Spanish politics have transitioned from bipartidism to multipartidism. This change led to an unstable situation which finally evolved to the rare scenario of two general elections in the period of six months. The two elections had a main difference: two important left-wing parties formed a coalition in the second election while they had run separately in the first one. In the ...

after islamic revolution of 1979, the left wing had a new sphere to act in political eras, and overcastted on the other groups, but as soon as possible, the unreligious left leaved the political scene of iran after revolution. it seems the religious groups –as the only legal political actors- are integrated under “islamic republic party” but so soon, we saw the distinction between them all. jus...

Based on the assumption that social media encourages a populist style of politics in online communities and proposition populism conspiracy theories tend to co-occur, this article investigates whether holds true for YouTube influencers, particularly less investigated left-wing spectrum. The provides qualitative case studies four different groups political content creators whose makes use or ana...

Democratic theory argues that individuals should have their policy preferences equally represented in politics. Research on opinion congruence has often found, however, political parties’ views are more likely to align with those of higher-income and higher educated citizens. We argue this conclusion does not account for heterogeneity among parties. Based an integrated dataset containing the po...

I examine why a majority of Israel’s legislators voted for direct election of the prime minister, reforming the electoral system that vested them with power. The analysis incorporates coalitional politics, strategic voting, and voter preferences over non-policy issues such as candidate charisma. The model generates novel hypotheses that are tested against empirical evidence. It explains five em...

More than a decade after the revolutions of 1989, we can see these as a highpoint of a new, worldwide and increasingly global wave of democratic revolution and counter-revolution. Violent struggles between the political forces unleashed have produced genocidal wars and stimulated global state formation. These developments present concerned citizens and students of international relations and po...

Moving beyond a unitary actor assumption that models members of a self-evidently collective entity such as a political party “as if” they all shared a single brain, this paper explores the cohesion and discipline of party legislators in multi-party systems operating under the constitutional rules of parliamentary government. We do this in the context of Italian politics, for which a consistent ...

We examine whether Brazilian sovereign spreads of over 20 percent in 2002 could be due to contagion from Argentina or to domestic politics, or both. Treating unilateral debt restructuring as a policy variable gives rise to the possibility of self-fulfilling crisis, which can be triggered by contagion. We explore an alternative political-economy explanation of panic in financial markets inspired...

The rapid decline of the Peruvian left-wing insurgent organization Sendero Luminoso was not only result arrest its leader. An analysis precipitous weakening using two social movement theories finds other factors were involved in demise as well. These factors—participatory politics, support for military among rural population, and alienation population by Luminoso—provide insights to effective c...