Multilevel citizenship, free movement, and the contrasting political projects of the United States and the European Union - Comparative European Politics

What do the different free movement and citizenship regimes of the U.S. and the EU reveal about their political projects and the nature of their polities? Proponents of European integration see free m...

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Are healthier people more likely to engage in political activities? A multinational analysis of health and institutional participation in Europe - Comparative European Politics

This study examines the relationship between subjective general health and institutional political participation, with a focus on the mediating mechanisms and age-related heterogeneity in this associa...

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Single markets, federalism and governance in the US and EU - Comparative European Politics

There is often a disconnect between the EU and US single markets, as the US is often touted as a model for the EU to emulate. While the political achievement of the European single market reflects a d...

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Reimagining nativism: a comparative analysis of the freedom and victory parties - Comparative European Politics

The Victory Party (ZP), established by Ümit Özdağ in 2021, and the Party for Freedom (PVV), led by Geert Wilders since 2006, are both classified as far-right parties. Each has prioritized opposition t...

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Does electoral volatility imply short-term voting motives? - Comparative European Politics

Recent research suggests that long-term determinants of vote choice have weakened, while short-term considerations have become increasingly influential, contributing to rising electoral volatility. Bu...

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Does electoral volatility imply short-term voting motives? - Comparative European Politics

Recent research suggests that long-term determinants of vote choice have weakened, while short-term considerations have become increasingly influential, contributing to rising electoral volatility. Bu...

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Green and Pirate parties in second-order elections: Alternative to the political mainstream and the far right? - Comparative European Politics

It has been argued that small, new, and protest parties should overperform in European Parliament elections (EPEs). However, ongoing transformations of European party systems call for a revaluation an...

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Pirates the Czech way: sailing (unsuccessfully) from the “Rebel Bay” to the calm waters of neoliberal mainstream? - Comparative European Politics

The paper aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on the transformation and mainstreaming of new, particularly anti-establishment, parties as they enter the system and assume governmental positions. ...

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From Breakthrough to Breakdown? Analyzing the Pirate Party of Luxembourg through a Supply-and-Demand Framework - Comparative European Politics

This article analyzes the trajectory of the Pirate Party of Luxembourg from its founding in 2009 and its electoral breakthrough in a traditionally stable system, up to the internal crisis that occurre...

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Political parties and dissensus over liberal democracy in the European Parliament - Comparative European Politics

Liberal democracy in the European Union faces significant challenges as its core pillars are increasingly contested, eroded, or dismantled. Against this backdrop, this special issue addresses the foll...

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Elections and emotions: voting right-wing populist in Austria - Comparative European Politics

Right wing populist voters are characterized by high levels of anger, according to previous work. In this paper, we explore the emotional dimensions of electoral behavior with an eye toward improving ...

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Pirate party trajectories in European multilevel systems: organizational choices and their consequences - Comparative European Politics

After their initial successes in second-order elections, Pirate parties in Sweden, Germany, and the Czech Republic followed divergent trajectories, with only the Czech Pirates successfully leveraging ...

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Two Decades of Pirate Politics in Europe

Pirate parties have been part of the European political landscape for twenty years; yet, their trajectories differ markedly, and only a few of them have ...

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Two Decades of Pirate Politics in Europe

Pirate parties have been part of the European political landscape for twenty years; yet, their trajectories differ markedly, and only a few of them have ...

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Post-Brexit Europeanization: re-thinking the continuum of British policies, polity, and politics trajectories - Comparative European Politics

What is the impact of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU on British policies, polity and politics and their future trajectories? This question has been overlooked so far, as many observers have focused o...

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What’s in a crisis? Taking contestation seriously in the study of Europe’s crisis politics - Comparative European Politics

The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of analysis in European studies. Part of...

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Adapting to adversity? EU trade policy in a more geopolitical world - Comparative European Politics

This article assesses how the EU’s trade policy has adapted to the recent injection of geopolitics into trade policy by China, Russia, and the USA. It uses major unanticipated shocks since the creatio...

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Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament

This Special Issue examines how democracy is being redefined and contested across the European Union. Moving beyond narratives of democratic backsliding, it ...

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Adapting to adversity? EU trade policy in a more geopolitical world - Comparative European Politics

This article assesses how the EU’s trade policy has adapted to the recent injection of geopolitics into trade policy by China, Russia, and the USA. It uses major unanticipated shocks since the creatio...

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What’s in a crisis? Taking contestation seriously in the study of Europe’s crisis politics - Comparative European Politics

Comparative European Politics - The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of...

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Energy Communities in the European Union: Comparative Analysis of Legislation, Incentives, and Barriers with a Focus on Spain - Comparative European Politics

Comparative European Politics - This analysis focuses on two main topics: What is the current state of Energy Community (EC) regulation in the Member States, in particular concerning cooperation...

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Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament

This Special Issue examines how democracy is being redefined and contested across the European Union. Moving beyond narratives of democratic backsliding, it ...

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