The Italian elections have sanctioned the success of the conservative coalition – made up of an alliance between the Lega, […]
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Tag: political parties
What happened to Europe’s left?, Jan Rovny (CNRS-SciencesPo, France)
in: Blog LSE – EUROPP – European Politics and Policy, February 2018 Only a handful of European states are currently governed by […]
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New wine in old bottles. Explaining the dimensional structure of European party systems, Jan Rovny, Jonathan Polk (CNRS-SciencesPo, France)
in: Party Politics, February 2018, p. 1-13 In Europe, noneconomic political issues are seen as secondary but significant aspects of political competition. There […]
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The elections in Chile and Honduras and regional political trends in 2018, Carlos Malamud, Rogelio Núñez (Elcano, Spain)
in Analyses of the Elcano Royal Institute (ARI), 2 February 2018 Chile and Honduras have kicked off an intense electoral period […]
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Mainstreaming Euroscepticism? An analysis of the effects of the politicisation of Europe in domestic elections on the framing strategies of the centre-right in Britain, France and Germany (Sciences Po, France)
Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po n° n°3/2017 The functional logic that had for so long guided European member states […]
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“Catalonia secessionist parties regain control of the region´s parliament”, William Chislett, December 2017 (Elcano, Spain)
Despite of the attempts of Rajoy to call elections in Catalonia in order to stop the secessionism reclaims. Once […]
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“Germany‘s New Instability” – CIFE Policy Paper N°63, Hartmut Marhold (CIFE)
The political system of the Federal Republic has been one of the most stable and solid among Western democracies since […]
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“A Resilience Approach to a Failed Accession State: The Case of Turkey”, Sinan Ülgen (IAI, Italy)
The concept of “building resilience” in Turkey can be defined as improving the capacity of institutions and society to withstand […]
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Could Austria join the Visegrád Group?, Paul Schmidt (Austrian Society for European Politics – ÖGfE)
The leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), Heinz-Christian Strache, has previously proposed that Austria could join the Visegrád […]
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A time of general distrust, Andrés Ortega (Elcano Institute)
Distrust permeates our societies: distrust in governments, in parliaments, in the news media, and even corporations have lost ground in […]
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Germany shifting to the right, Alexander Görlach (Elcano Institute)
And now Germany: similarly to most other European countries, the Federal Republic will now also have a right-wing party decisively […]
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Japan’s rosy short-term outlook masks the failure of Abenomics , Alicia Garcia Herrero & Kohei Iwahara (Elcano Institute)
The Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzō Abe, won a majority in the elections to the Lower House of parliament held […]
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Les enjeux européens dans la présidentielle française, Comptes-rendus, Olivier Rozenberg (Sciences Po, France)
in Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po n° 02/2017 L’Europe d’aujourd’hui est confrontée à de très nombreuses crises. L’événement majeur que […]
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“Possible Future European Union Party-Political Systems”, Martin Westlake (CoE, Bruges)
in Bruges Political Research Papers no.60 The paper passes in review the post-war steps to a parliamentary European Union and a […]
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The Communist Party convenes in China: What is in the tea leaves?, Jyrki Kallio (FIIA, Finland)
The Communist Party of China is meeting to set up guidelines for the next five years. Although Chinese society is […]
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Republican government in the United States: Its implications for US foreign policy, Anna Kronlund (FIIA, Finland)
The 2016 elections in the United States resulted in Republican victories at both state and federal levels. After the years […]
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Crisis in Social Democracy, crisis in Europe?, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
Elcano Blog, October 2017 The competition that has characterised European politics for years has been between a centre-left and centre-right. […]
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Ukraine’s party system evolution: 1990-2017 (Razumkov Centre, Ukraine)
This publication presents an abridged version of the Analytical Report by the Razumkov Centre that examines the emergence and further […]
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